I was using a chart that said 1.6 gallons would produce 20kWh. The article Lainey the bus would go much further if it burned the diesel directly. My contention is this is not true or there is very little difference
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 15, 2019, at 3:48 PM, Willie via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 10/15/19 3:19 PM, Jan Steinman via EV wrote: >>> From: paul dove <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> >>> I doubt this is true. My little car will go 81 miles on the electricity >>> from a diesel generator burning 1.6 gallons of diesel.? I doubt I could >>> drive 81 miles in a diesel version of this car on 1.6 gallons that would be >>> 50mpg. >> Our diesel Jetta gets 50 mpg. > > Yes, that was common with early VW diesels. Early 1990s? Our Golf TDI used > to regularly do 50 mpg and up to 55 if driven carefully. It was hard for me > to believe that such little fuel consumption could have been much of a > pollution concern when compared to 10-15 mpg gasoline cars. No matter how > clean they were. > > It is not clear what we are talking about though. Surely the bus would not > do miles on 1.6 gallons worth of diesel generator charge? No matter, the > diesel generator charging must have been an emergency. > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
