Hi, just to add some useful data using some data used for electric car(french) in european small car market http://sfp.in2p3.fr/Debat/debat_energie/websfp/Livet-elect.htm
for small urban cars (the kind who consume 3-4litter/100km) Cx is around 0.33 for profiled cars, ( 0.5 for SUV), front surface is about 1.8m2 (more for big suv), tires drag 1.2% at 100kph the power consumed is about 7kW for air drag and 3kW for tires drag but If I go to 130kPh (french highway) it goes to 16kW for air drag and 4kW for tires... 25kW is not far I can also add the energy to climb 5% slope, consuming 18kW more... so a small european urban car consume about 20kW on the highway, with peak at 40kW (slope or accelerations- not absolutely required in fact, because one can accepto to be slower sometime) if I add the bad shape factor of SUV, and some more weight it can explode to twice 2012/1/10 Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> > Right, > I mean the battery need only to allow the vehicle to move on the highway, > while the LENR engine is cold... > > I don't know well the power need of cars. I just look at current hybrid > cars power to get reasonable values. > > 25kW when running cold is a good news. > I assume this mean that when engine is cold the driver have to keep cool ? > maybe this even mean that you could design the car to need only 25kW on > the highway ... >
