Thanks for the link to the article. There was no table in the article.
I extracted the data given in the article to simplify reading for USMA
readers.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:22 PM
Subject: [USMA:43364] Re: SI in Auto reports
I'm not sure it is the same article (no table in it) but the same newspaper,
and concept car:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/06/new-kia-no-3-concept-car-stars-at-geneva-show/
The 15 kW 105 Nm rating is the supplemental electrical motor as explained in
the article. The output of the gasoline engine is not revealed.
--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Bill Hooper <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Bill Hooper <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:43362] Re: SI in Auto reports
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 10:43 AM
On Mar 6 , at 9:23 AM, STANLEY DOORE wrote:
> The "New Kia No 3 concept car stars at Geneva
Show" article reported by Motor Matters in the March 6
issue of The Washington Times uses all metric. Great!
> Following are a few examples
> Gasoline only
Hybrid gas-electric
>
> Length 4045 mm
4045 mm
> CO2 rating 137 g/km
109 g/km
> Engine size 1.4 & 1.6-litre
1.6-litre
> Fuel Consumption
4.81 liters per 100 km
>
15 kW
>
105 Nm AC
> Acceleration to
11.8 seconds
> 100 kph
> Top speed
185 kph
To what do those two items, "15 kW" and 105 Nm
AC", refer?
They seem to be unlabeled in the table, but the table was a
bit garbled (just not well lined up, mainly) as I received
it on my computer (a common problem with tables transmitted
by email).
"15 kW" is obviously a power, but - power of
what? The "4.81 L/100 km" is presumably the fuel
consumption for the gasoline-only car (although my garbled
table shows it in the "hybrid" column. So the 15
kW perhaps belongs in the next (hybrid) column, but why it
would be on the line labeled "fuel consumption" I
don't know.
105 Nm might be a torque but that makes the appended
"AC" confusing.
If it is a torque, then, torque of what?
And if it is torque and the unit is supposed to be
newton-metres, then the symbol should be "N m" or
"N.m" or "N·m", with a space or dot or
raised dot between the symbol for newtons and the symbol for
metres.
