Why do you write "as if"? Clearly you use no fuel if you're engine braking, everyone knows that., therefore you can travel infinity miles.
Only one EV charger at home?!
Apr 16, 2023
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My 1998 VW didn't have that. And the alternator wore out anyway.
Idiot, all motors are electric.
Or be prosecuted for instigating a crash-for-cash incident which would make your future insurance costs significant.
Funny, I thought they were all "motor cars" whatever the engine type.
Its the old motor versus engine debate. Its all bollocks. electric or IC they are both engines and both motors. A 'motor' is an 'engine' used for propulsion, that's all. An 'engine' is merely a 'complex design'.
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"People use both interchangeably, but the difference is that motors run on electricity and engines run on combustion. The engine converts various forms of fuels into mechanical force, while the motor transforms electrical energy into mechanical energy.”
Total bollocks. What does a siege engine run on? Kia are not native English speakers and no ArtStudent making a car company website knows anything aboyut eithert engineering, which is more that designing engines for cars - or the Engllsh slangauge
Engine comes from 'ingenuity' motor comes from 'motion'.
An engine, or engyne, is a complex (mechanical) device no more and no less. These days it might also be software - 'database engine' etc etc. Engineering is the art and science of devising complex systems to achieve certain tasks.
A motor is a device that imparts motion. Like a gas turbine in a loco*motive*, or a diesel engine.
Tell that to my motorcycles, or motorbikes in your parlance.
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All these years it should have been called 'Engine Trend'?
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And a few other things. Real time mpg was the most useful as an everyday function. The mileage falls off rapidly at 80+ mph so knowing your current burn rate is useful for planning fuel stops. We don't have gas stations behind every bush.
I discovered a few years ago how badly roof bars affect MPG when driving at motorway speeds.
"Motor", referring specifically to an internal combustion engine, is an Americanism. In British English, the word almost always references an electric motor. Note that you never hear "electric engine".
There's no over-riding reason why this should be so. It just *is* so.
and air motors.
Hello John got a new motor?
But the driving of vehicles is called "motoring" not "engining".
My (1960) Chambers Dictionary says "a machine whereby some source of energy is used to give motion .. esp an internal combustion engine or a machine for converting electrical into mechanical energy"
That is simply not true. There are rubber motors, clockwork motors...Motor has never referred specifically to *anything*. Any more than 'engine' ever has. Steam engines, siege engines, database engines...The Ford TriMotor had 3 Wright radial *engines*..
There is simply no case in which one can reliably say that there is no such thing as an electric engine, or a diesel motor.
It simply *isn't* so.
I didn't say it was logical. It's simply a matter of accepted usage. English, and especially British English, is full of such idiosyncracies.
*Usage*."My car w>> There's no over-riding reason why this should be so. It just *is* so.
That's the whole vehicle.
Had he been enquiring about having a "recon" engine fitted, the line would have had to be "Hello, John, had a new engine?".
I am talking about English as She is Spoken in the UK in the twenty-first century (and probably for about a hundred years when related to this specific topic).
I'm not totally sure what you are talking about, but it is certainly not English usage.
Not always
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