Isekai Shachuuhaku Monogatari - Outrunner PHEV

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In theory he can do daily driving on electricity from solar panels, saving the gasoline for emergencies when he needs to drive long distances. Unfortunately there are two problems with this.

  • The amount of solar panels you can put on a car can only generate enough energy to move an EV or PHEV about 5 miles per day. Granted, you can leave the car parked several days and only drive it once in a while. Or bring a huge bank of extra solar panels and plug it in. But the mobility from only rooftop solar panels is pretty restrictive.
  • Gasoline degrades over time. Unless you've added stabilizers, after about a year it's pretty much won't run an engine anymore (its combustion characteristics have changed too much). A lot of zombie apocalypse shows make this mistake too. Technically you can keep it indefinitely if you isolate it from the air. But because of how much it vaporizes with changes in temperature, nearly all fuel tanks and fuel cans have a vent hole to equalize pressure. So unless you've stocked up on stabilizers beforehand, you're only looking at about a year of usability. Diesel is a better option. It's more like vegetable oil and can last 5+ years (unless algae starts growing in it).
The best thing about a hybrid in our world is that it lets you avoid running the ICE motor in inefficient states (e.g. starting from a dead stop). The peak efficiency band of an electric motor is much broader than an ICE motor. So you can use the electric motor to move the car in situations where the ICE would burn a lot of fuel for little effect. Combined with regenerative braking (though that only recovers about 30%-35% of the energy), that's why hybrids get much better mileage ratings than a pure ICE. Starting from a dead stop is especially brutal for ICE motors.
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there is one thing we need to take into consideration too: it's another world, so we don't know if that science applies.

This whole convo made me realize how much fun it would be to research what would happen with cars and their inner workings in another world, if it would exist xD
 
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Also for anyone wondering there are 27 raw chapters (each chapter has a part 1 & 2) as of 09/06/2024
gib link, since that would mean translation will be heavily delayed (3 translated vs 27 non-translated, wtf?)

i would much prefer to do machine translation and read it that way rather than wait who knows how long
 
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there is one thing we need to take into consideration too: it's another world, so we don't know if that science applies.

This whole convo made me realize how much fun it would be to research what would happen with cars and their inner workings in another world, if it would exist xD
Chronicles of Amber (by Roger Zelazny). MC is part of the royal family who have the power to travel through the multiverse by gradually shifting through adjacent worlds (similar but slightly different worlds) until they reach their desired world. The primary ("real") world is Amber, and Earth is just a shadow.

But physics changes as you shift to different worlds. So Earth cars run rougher the further you shift from the Earth shadow, and eventually stop working altogether. This becomes a plot point later. Nobody has been able to find an explosive which works in Amber. Meaning there is no equivalent to gunpowder, so all wars are waged with swords and sorcery. Until MC tosses a dirty rag in the fireplace and it explodes...
 
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Been watching Japanese man having a meal inside a car, shack, boat ,... during a rain or snow storm a lot lately and suddenly i got recommend this manga? Gotta thank to YT- China spyware. You too, Google!
 
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Ha, so he go randomly time travel in the same world :) sound like he found the mother of kyara/his wife/his over/his granddaughter (of kyara)/ (?)
If so, the story will be a little better.
 

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