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Originally Posted by modest
... If you're going for distance it's less efficient to deliver the energy quickly gaining high speed then than letting it coast then to deliver the power over a long time never gaining much speed and never 'coasting'.
The total energy is the same in either case, but at high speeds there's more air resistance and friction from the moving parts of the car. So, slow speed and low power for a long duration is conventional wisdom when going for speed [EDIT: distance].
~modest
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Roger. I finally got that.
As Craig showed so succinctly, no matter the type of drive or the speed, there is a theoretical limit to how far any vehicle can roll given a 1 kilo weight falling 10 cm onboard to power it.
Now you raise an interesting question though, and a different challenge which is how to keep the vehicle under power for the entire ~10 meter trip? I have some ideas, what about y'all?
(might be a subject for a different thread?
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