12-12-19, 01:03 PM
Quote:Anyone know what the heaters are like in fully electric cars?. You've not got any hot water have you?.Yeah, well think why you can heat yer internal combustion driven car so easily. It is because it is so dreadfully inefficient. You need a whole cooling system to get shot of all the heat it generates. That heat is energy – it’s waste. Up to 70% of the energy generated in an internal combustion engine is heat – which ideally is not what we want an engine to do.
At the end of the day the internal combustion engine is incredibly inefficient. It depends on the type of vehicle , engine, drive chain etc but a typical car is less than 20% efficient.
As much as we all love the internal combustion engine – we all need to step back and realise in reality how appallingly crap it is.