Re:Rolls-Royce concludes testing of plane technology to brea...
by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:14PM
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You'd want to compare net capacity as ton miles/gallon. Preferably as cargo rather than gross weight, though I'm using the latter for convenience.
Passenger cars net about 90 or so, for a high-efficiency vehicle, gross vehicular weight, at full capacity.
Assuming 140,000 lb GVWR and 7 mpg, I compute 490 ton-mpg. That's roughly equivalent to numbers given for rail ("move one ton of freight one mile on a gallon of fuel), and is likely high, though 100-250 ton-mpg seems likely.
This is not net cargo efficiency, where that rail number may come from. But gives a sense for numbers.
Passenger cars net about 90 or so, for a high-efficiency vehicle, gross vehicular weight, at full capacity.
Assuming 140,000 lb GVWR and 7 mpg, I compute 490 ton-mpg. That's roughly equivalent to numbers given for rail ("move one ton of freight one mile on a gallon of fuel), and is likely high, though 100-250 ton-mpg seems likely.
This is not net cargo efficiency, where that rail number may come from. But gives a sense for numbers.