Or how about when a car is overheating and you turn on the heater for that extra bit of heat capacity?
I regret to inform you that I have experience with this in the middle of summer.
Of course! That’s when the engine is going to over heat. If you’re hot, they’re hot
That reminds me of this:
“Of course your keys are always in the last place you look! Why would you keep looking after you find them?”
Drivert auxiliary power from life support to plasma coolant.
Drivert in this context has got to be the best trypo.
Hadn’t even seen it before you pointed it out. That’s staying 😁
He would say divert you uncultured Philistine!
He would also omit “the”. C’mon now
Yes thank you, I was worried I would be the only one bothered by this
I worked on solar racing cars as a student. The main race crosses outback Australia. One of the questions we often got: Does it have A/C?
No, no it doesn’t. A/C uses about as much power as all of the solar cells on the car deliver. We can either move, or power an A/C-unit.
Isn’t the outback pretty hot? Think I would channel that power to the A/C and the radio and just include legholes.
Yabba dabba dooo!
That sounds like a hell of an awesome project
It is!
We run the A/C until the car is cool, then we move. The rest of the crew is with me on this.
So what do you do? Ice vest?
Jup. They do that. After an edition of the challenge where someone fainted and crashed due to the heat, they also added regulations for airflow. It might be hot outside-air, but that is still way better than inside-over air.
Sometimes, but they only work for so long. Mostly just bring plenty water and power through. Every stint is about 4 hours of driving, and then drivers change.
Hope you don’t need a fire suit!
What about an evaporative cooler?
Either too heavy (these vehicles are below 200kg) or it doesnt work long enough. Or you’re now hot and humid, which is worse than hot and dry
Wow 200kg is super light. No room for water weight in one of those, makes sense!
Haha I didn’t think people still retained that ancient knowledge of motoring success. The good ole days of weak 4-cylinder cars and trucks, when you’d disengage the AC to get more power to go up a hill or something. I’ve met several people who didn’t know it was even a thing.
I mean, crappy 4 cylinder cars are still a thing.
Yes of course they are, but modern 4-cylinder engines have advanced a lot since the old days of last century’s engines.
Today it’s not hard to find a 4-cylinder that can put out 100 horsepower per liter, or even more. They can pull that little car up the hill with the AC on full blast.
I mean most cars are 4 cylinder. (Aren’t they?)
Most modern 4 cyl cars are better than old ones. The engines are more powerful and the car lighter
Many more recent cars will do this automatically at high throttle conditions, such as acceleration to pass.
Far out
Jfc, I thought I was the only one geeky enough to not only do that, but admit it in public
I do that going up long, steep grades when the truck is fully loaded
