Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > energy loss

energy loss

Typical internal combustion engine vehicles convert fuel energy to shaft work, which is used to overcome the tractive energy needed to drive forward. The same energy is used to operate a vehicle's accessories. A vehicle with only an internal combustion engine uses only about 16% of its energy to accelerate the vehicle. Thto decrease fuel consumption during partial load conditions and to improve acceleration.

0
Collect to Blossary

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Geography Category: Cities & towns

Muscatine

Muscatine is a city in Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. Founded by representatives of Colonel George Davenport in 1833, the European-American ...

Featured blossaries

Machine-Translation terminology

Category: Languages   1 2 Terms

Astrill

Category: Technology   1 2 Terms