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I really fail to see how the planned lifetime of F1 engines is related to its potential fuel efficiency. If anything, I would expect the engines could be made e
by w0utert 10y ago
I really fail to see how the planned lifetime of F1 engines is related to its potential fuel efficiency. If anything, I would expect the engines could be made even more efficient if they were designed to last 300.000 miles, at the expense of power output. I find it hard to believe that tuning an engine so far it will wear down quickly will improve it's efficiency.
- Ensorceled 10y agoThis is genius! You should go to Ford, GM, etc. and explain how they can just take the techniques from the F1 engine and tune it to really improve their cars mileage. Clearly their engineers have thought that yet!
- nopzor 10y agoAn F1 engine doesn't even have a starter. It's made out of exotic material. It runs at 18,000+ rpm, and idles at what most car engines would redline at! The entire car can weigh no less than ~1500lb, including the driver! Making the engine last longer would likely require a huge increase in weight, which would reduce efficiency.
- pmontra 10y agoThe new combustion engines are limited to 15,000 rpm. They usually stay well below the limit because of limitations on fuel amount (100 kg per race). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_engines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_engines
- pmontra 10y agoThe new regulations mandate 100 kg of fuel per race, so they had to improve efficiency. I think none of us really cares about that extra mile per gallon or km per liter when chosing a car. I mean, beetween 20 or 21 km per liter maybe how the car looks is the selling factor. In racing winning is everything.