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Nope, you’d need to find a way to cool the engine. A car has a water pump that moves water through the engine and to a radiator. The cars motion moves air acros
by alistairSH 3y ago
Nope, you’d need to find a way to cool the engine. A car has a water pump that moves water through the engine and to a radiator. The cars motion moves air across the radiator. Most cars have an electric fan so they can run at idle, but they aren’t designed to idle indefinitely. Police cars in the US often have (or at least had) beefed up cooling system to allow them to run at idle.
- yetihehe 3y agoCars during tests on dynamometer have to have a big fan blowing constantly on radiator. If you provide a big enough fan, you can run it as long as you want, even with big load. I was once doing 140km/h on autobahn uphill with fully loaded passenger car with additional fully loaded roof trailer. The car managed half an hour of fully open throttle without any problems, but If your home needs to use 40kW for more than a hour, maybe investing in proper generator is a better solution. In typical applications, engine will not be running at full power.