Re:Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2...
by toxik on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:46AM
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It could also be because trucks drive efficiently with little speed variations, at speeds of high fuel efficiency, 80-90 km/h. Drag is actually much more complicated than that, the air being is turbulent.
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Re:Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2...
by renewiltord on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:02PM
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May be a little, but classic hypermiling technique is to do that anyway. So the slipstream gains are real since absent the truck a hypermiler is going to do the same thing anyway. I never hit the heady heights of good hypermilers, but I had a car I could reliably do 23 km/l, 55 mpg in.
Funny, my current car does 24 mpg on the highway at the speeds I like. Half the efficiency and probably mostly due to me.