I only was showing that metric was used exclusively in the article.
Writing in the article needs to be more clear.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hooper
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:43 AM
Subject: [USMA:43362] Re: SI in Auto reports
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.
