So if 80% of these engines can run the equivalent of 300,000 highway miles and 20 years at 15,000 miles a year with only normal maintenance, how long do you think they last with a hard-to-define equivalent of 3,000 start-stop miles? 2,000 years? You know that’s wrong. Depending on start-stop cycles and impossible to know engineering mistakes, it could have a shorter life than normal, for all I know. But let’s say it lasts 40 years (outliving how many batteries?). Very little work was done by a very powerful and complex engine. You asked something like “optimize what” but then said you were only mentioning one kind of optimization. You can’t really say both. The value and expense of this fine engine are far from optimized in use here. It’s wasted.
“You asked something like “optimize what” but then said you were only mentioning one kind of optimization. You can’t really say both.”
You totally revise the discussion.
You said there was an optimum run cycle for engine life in years.
I asked what was the optimum cycle.
You answered with something about energy transfer which was totally off subject.
“how long do you think they last with a hard-to-define equivalent of 3,000 start-stop miles? 2,000 years? You know that’s wrong.”
I never said. I asked you what was optimum.
OTOH, my neighbor’s 67 Trans Am is still going strong after 60 years.