Vehicles Are Becoming More Fuel Effective
Automotive engines steadily improved in efficiency by roughly 60 percent from 1980 to 2006, according to a new study by MIT economist Christopher Knittel That implies we could already be driving vehicles that get an average of 37 miles per gallon (MPG), nicely above today’s average of 27 MPG. By comparison, the V8 engines pre-2014 achieved thermal efficiency of 29 percent and the initially iteration of the Mercedes V6 turbo in 2014 managed 40 percent thermal efficiency. Toyota has now developed a new gasoline engine which it claims has a maximum thermal efficiency of 38 percent-higher than any other mass-produced combustion engine. Meanwhile, soon after 2015, the technologies has sophisticated the efficiency of engines to 47% and generating historic highs of energy – and all with an ICE restricted to consuming fuel at a price of just 100kg/hr, which means that 50 % of the prospective power than can be …
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