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Old 09-07-2005, 09:33 AM
solecondad solecondad is offline
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Real Name: Dave
Location: Reno, NV
Hybrids: honda civic
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Default Re: “Tbaleno takes the Gloves Off” w/ his CVT based HCH - P&G ;-)

Congratulations guys! I am impressed. After thinking that P&G was not such a useful option in the HCH, as opposed to the Prius, I will now have to give it a try. I'm going to worry tho about what restarting the ICE at speed is going to do to my tranny.

A really helpful bit of data for comparison is the length of time in pulse and in glide. (got a stopwatch?) The rate of decelleration in glide (in miles per hour per second) says a lot about your rolling resistance and the accelleration rate in pulse is another way to describe how much foot you put in it. I don't have many flat windless roads around Reno to try this on, so give me some hard data. I'm trying to write the energy equation for a car under way, taking into account wind and rolling resistance, upgrade or down, accelleration and any other strong factors. And I need help with real-world numbers!

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Last edited by solecondad : 09-07-2005 at 10:25 AM. Reason: clarify last sentence
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