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Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by Dzzzz: 7:27pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
lifezone247:..They no talk of okada Na car them mention..Ac doesn’t not work with fuel 😂😂😂this guy what did you inhale ? 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by Lookingback: 7:27pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Yes , offcourse. |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by wahalawahala: 7:28pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
ariesbull:dey play... Enjoy ur suffering in silence... Online billionaire gang |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by airsaylongcome: 7:28pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
lucane123: Do you have a reference for this? And do you know that drag (when you have your windows down) is actually more inefficient than whatever load AC puts on the engine? 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by BarrElChapo(m): 7:28pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
lifezone247: I used to think like you and I googled it to confirm but alas 3 Likes
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Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by duality(m): 7:29pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Manny21: By who! don't let those who's car engine efficiency is high, deceive you. As your engine gets older efficiency reduces and fuel consumption will increase. With AC, it increases more. It's like saying house AC don't consume electricity. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by airsaylongcome: 7:29pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
blueghost: When you have your windows down, it looses it's aerodynamics (essentially acting like a parachute) adding way more load to the engine than whatever load the AC adds. Edit: I've come across field tests that convincingly show I was wrong above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUFwbNbQpck#bottom-sheet 2 Likes |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by wahalawahala: 7:29pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Iamzik:why I go take am personal 1 Like |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by bignero: 7:30pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
lifezone247:? really? chai soo all this while sun de beat me for nothing? you really sure? |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by Quebec91(m): 7:31pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
maberry: 1 Like |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by BarrElChapo(m): 7:31pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Manny21: I bet you don't know more than the government of Canada 😀 3 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by Quebec91(m): 7:31pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Sonnobax15: 1 Like |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by adanny01(m): 7:32pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
lifezone247: Oga chill, it does but a little too small to be significantly affect milage especially on city driving. For highway, the fuel consumption especially on modern cars is insignificant. |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by BarrElChapo(m): 7:32pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
airsaylongcome: See where he got the information from. From the government of Canada's website. 1 Like
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Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by casualobserver: 7:33pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Rikze: It is foolish to think you save petrol by not using your AC. When you wind down, your car becomes less aerodynamic so their is more drag and you actually use more petrol when you wind down. Than windows up and AC on. If you want to save petrol stop putting your foot down and watch your rev counter. Try never to go above 3000 and once you achieve your desired speed try to maintain your rev counter between 1500 and 2500 max you will use almost half the petrol you used to consume. Avoid heavy acceleration if you want to save petrol. Look at the road ahead of you if the road is not free accelerating only to brake is just wasting petrol. A car requires a lot of power to get it to the desired speed. Once it reaches that speed and so long as it is not excessive speed, you only need minimal petrol to Mai rain your speed but if you keep accelerating only to brake, you are just burning petrol. Your driving habits is the difference between doing 500km on a full tank or doing 250km. If you have a trip computer on your car (most modern cars do). It will show you how much petrol you are consuming (miles per gallon mpg or liters/km) when you accelerate and when you are just maintaining reasonable speed. They won’t need to tell you to avoid undue acceleration. Also you can put your trip computer in range view and see how your range increases or decreases depending on your driving pattern. You can thank me later. 5 Likes
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Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by airsaylongcome: 7:34pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
BarrElChapo: Agreed now that I have done some more research 4 Likes |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by tete7000(m): 7:34pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Manny21: Who proved this? AC needs power to run it, and that power comes from the energy generated by the engine. When you put on your ac, the engine drives the compressors and make energy available to its other components increasing the total energy needed by your vehicle to run. The only thing you can say is that the energy needed is small and insignificant compare to total energy needed to run the vehicle, but to say AC doesn't consume fuel at all contravenes your simple law of energy conservation. 3 Likes |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by airsaylongcome: 7:35pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
casualobserver: I used to believe this as well. But this video shows field tests that invalidate the assertion that AC on is more efficient than windows down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUFwbNbQpck#bottom-sheet 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by bignero: 7:36pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
casualobserver: 3000 what? speedometer? can you be clear? |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by Iko5000: 7:37pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Quoting a woke Canada website that hates ICE cars . To start with it depends on the cars,most modern cars does not not consume much fuel when you use the a/c and also on a long motorway journey it saves to use a/c than having your windows open which will cause drag . [ [/quote]quote author=BarrElChapo post=124549179] 3 Likes |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by maximizer61(m): 7:37pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Blackestjunior:i swear i can't drive without AC |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by casualobserver: 7:37pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
bignero: I said rev counter. Nigerian have no sense of fuel economy because petrol has been too cheap. Most Nigerians don’t even know the MPG of their car. 1 Like |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by Kobicove(m): 7:38pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
I still drive with my AC on cos I don't want to get robbed in traffic |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by kay29000(m): 7:39pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
shereef19: What car do you drive |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by tete7000(m): 7:40pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
airsaylongcome: The amount of drag will be a function of the speed of the vehicle. At low speed, the drag might be insignificant compare to energy needed to run the AC. At high speed, it might be better to run your vehicle with AC than leave your windows wind down. However even at high speed, people hardly leave windows totally wind down as too much air draft also caused discomfort to occupants. 4 Likes |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by toprealman: 7:40pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
lifezone247:https://www.airconco.com/news/does-in-car-air-conditioning-consume-fuel-if-so-how-much/ 1 Like |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by heykims(m): 7:41pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
lifezone247:But doesn't the engine change sound when u switch on the AC? If it does, then it has impact on the engine. 4 Likes |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by uuzba(m): 7:42pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
lifezone247:The gas is compressed by the compressor. Once you turn on the AC the compressor clutch engages such that the pulley starts to work the compression engine. That is an extra work for the car engine. Extra work = Extra petrol. 5 Likes |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by maximizer61(m): 7:42pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Well i don't know if AC consumes fuel because i haven't had an experience of driving without the AC on. |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by Justiceleague1: 7:43pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
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Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by chally4real(m): 7:44pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Why do people still belive AC don't consume fuel?...AC does consume fuel if u'r not on high speed but does conserve fuel if u'r in high speed...do your research well 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do You Still Drive Your Car With AC? by yarimo(m): 7:45pm On Jul 20, 2023 |
Angrygoat:Just simple question. Do you still use ac ? Nobody is asking if your ac is burnt or you ordered another one. 2 Likes |
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