Or how about when a car is overheating and you turn on the heater for that extra bit of heat capacity?
I'm not sure what you people are doing but I'm usually pretty hot and sweaty. Don't shit in your car.
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.
We run the A/C until the car is cool, then we move. The rest of the crew is with me on this.
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.
ive lived this in a 3 cylinder geo metro that for some ungodly reason had air conditioning. i loved that car.
dump the ac, and drop it into warp 2, youre good to go
I used to have a 2000 Honda insight that I ripped the hybrid battery out of and just drove it on the 3 cylinders. That thing was geared so high I would drive up hills flooring it in 2nd gear at like 35 mph. 5th gear basically never got used unless I needed to go 85 mph+
Fun car that stranded me only a couple times lol. The “replacement” hybrid battery was an Arduino spliced into the wiring harness to trick the car computer that everything was okay. Felt like some real ghetto cyberpunk shit driving that thing around.
I had a similar car, the 1990 Ford Escort Pony. It had a hamster for an engine, but it was fine because the body was a shoebox.
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.
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.
Many more recent cars will do this automatically at high throttle conditions, such as acceleration to pass.
Jfc, I thought I was the only one geeky enough to not only do that, but admit it in public
