Or how about when a car is overheating and you turn on the heater for that extra bit of heat capacity?
I regret to inform you that I have experience with this in the middle of summer.
I’ve been there friend, it’s pretty shitty
I’m not sure what you people are doing but I’m usually pretty hot and sweaty. Don’t shit in your car.
Don’t shit in your car.
Party pooper
Of course! That’s when the engine is going to over heat. If you’re hot, they’re hot
That reminds me of this:
“Of course your keys are always in the last place you look! Why would you keep looking after you find them?”
Drivert auxiliary power from life support to plasma coolant.
ive lived this in a 3 cylinder geo metro that for some ungodly reason had air conditioning. i loved that car.
dump the ac, and drop it into warp 2, youre good to go
I used to have a 2000 Honda insight that I ripped the hybrid battery out of and just drove it on the 3 cylinders. That thing was geared so high I would drive up hills flooring it in 2nd gear at like 35 mph. 5th gear basically never got used unless I needed to go 85 mph+
Fun car that stranded me only a couple times lol. The “replacement” hybrid battery was an Arduino spliced into the wiring harness to trick the car computer that everything was okay. Felt like some real ghetto cyberpunk shit driving that thing around.
They don’t sell too many little cars like the Metro in the U.S. anymore. Sad really.
He would say divert you uncultured Philistine!
He would also omit “the”. C’mon now
I worked on solar racing cars as a student. The main race crosses outback Australia. One of the questions we often got: Does it have A/C?
No, no it doesn’t. A/C uses about as much power as all of the solar cells on the car deliver. We can either move, or power an A/C-unit.
Isn’t the outback pretty hot? Think I would channel that power to the A/C and the radio and just include legholes.
Yabba dabba dooo!
That sounds like a hell of an awesome project
We run the A/C until the car is cool, then we move. The rest of the crew is with me on this.
Hope you don’t need a fire suit!
So what do you do? Ice vest?
What about an evaporative cooler?
*divert
The confluence of the power streams has put life in these old thrusters
Haha I didn’t think people still retained that ancient knowledge of motoring success. The good ole days of weak 4-cylinder cars and trucks, when you’d disengage the AC to get more power to go up a hill or something. I’ve met several people who didn’t know it was even a thing.
I mean, crappy 4 cylinder cars are still a thing.
I still do it on our 2011 Subaru when merging onto a highway.
Subaru’s are a meme
I mean most cars are 4 cylinder. (Aren’t they?)
That’s still a thing for old cars like mine.
This is literally my brother in his electric truck on the highway trying to eek out a bit more range
Not important, but in case you didn’t know – In that usage the word is ‘eke’. ‘Eek!’ is the sound you make when someone jumps out from a closet wearing a spider mask.
Or when a spider jumps out from a closet wearing a person mask
Or when a closet jumps out of a person wearing a spooderman mask
Jfc, I thought I was the only one geeky enough to not only do that, but admit it in public
My car does this automatically. If you floor it, the vents start blowing hot air.
It does make me wonder how much it really helps.
Like the vents start blowing hot air or the ac shuts off temporarily? If the former, then your ac probably just can’t keep up with the extra heat in the engine
Several cars disable the AC compressor when they detect that you’re flooring it. This removes the mechanical load from the engine, releasing a bit more power to the wheels for as long as you’re balls to the wall.
