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What kind of conversion efficiency would you expect from a range extender, like 90% or so?
by nharada 3y ago
What kind of conversion efficiency would you expect from a range extender, like 90% or so?
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoConverting shaft to electrical energy should be 90%+ efficient, yeah. This is about the efficiency we should expect from modern EVs making traction power (with some better, some worse), and the efficiency backwards has some nuance about torque vs power, but generally generation is using the same principles & systems in similar configurations. If anything, I think efficiency should be higher for comparable-ish systems, since a range extender can tune for an incredibly narrow power-band where-as EV electric motors have a range of rpm they have to operate across.