Ah, good point, the speed changes for ICE ended results in lots of energy wastes due to heat instead of being recaptured. That would certainly be the largest loss for an ICE in the city cycle.
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flyingjake@lemmy.one 8 months agoIdle losses are real but not very substantial in a modern engine compared to the bigger factor you’re missing which is that in city driving tests there is a lot of speeding up and slowing down, ICE vehicles throw away all the energy used to slow down as heat in the brakes which makes city cycles particularly inefficient while an EV captures that energy through regenerative braking, dramatically reducing the net cost of those momentum changes.
skysurfer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
snowe@programming.dev 8 months ago
Regenerative braking only can recapture something like 2-5% of lost energy. The bigger factor is exactly what the other person said.
murderisbad@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This is just not true. Regenerative braking is much more efficient than that.