creating an engine that was way larger than needed is common but you know , people wnt more power because for some reason it makes them feel "stronger" although this is of course rediculoius , but thats human nature. most of the mileage put on a car is in city traffic where it is impossible to achieve the maximum speed. the excess horepower is spent racing oneanother to the next red light.
creating an inefficiant engine and using a radiator to blow a lot of the energy in the air behind ou was a stupid idea from the get go, it proves how inefficiant gasoline powered engines are and always were.
automakers continue to change designs making a long lived chassis impossible , In reality cars could be made to fit a standard frame and the frame could be reusable and be made of alunimum and lightweght alloys drastically changin the power to weight ratio.
its possible to use currrent technologies to build repairable cars that are fuel efficient but what automakers wan to produce is more cars, noit ones that could be repaired , Thats the sort of thing that happens when decisions are made by profit analysis rather than common sense.
regenerative braking could have been used long ago , but it was never developed until electric cars took over the market. our gas cars waste tons of energy by braking before each traffic light and then restarting each time the vehicle is stopped and put back into motion a great amount of energy is spent needlesssly heating the brake discks and pads.
with the up and coming electric cars the automakers had a chance to make decisions to build repairable lightweight cars that last instead we have a lot of teslas and other junk on the road that is designed to become obsolete as fast as the batteries.. by the time the batterys expire the cars are not worth rebuilding due to the cost of all the unique and proprieatry parts. Sadly it just more engineered examplse of engineered obsolescence.
its probably not a realistic hope but I coudl definitely see a well designed repairable and lightweight vehicle that is electric or hybrid and that uses standardized and replacable components . what seems ot stand in the way is powerful corportations who make desisions that are bad for consumers.
th overalll cost is a lot of money being spent by consumers and a lot of it leaving the country to fund foregn automakers. The profiteering and money based decisions caused a lot of environmental pollution and damage for future generations . automakers easily achieved 30 and even 50 MPG cars bcack as early as the 70's and yet today, some 70 years later,
cars are still being sold that get very poor gas milage.
for some vehicles like a flatdeck truck or a dumptruch good mileage cant; be expected but its just not necessary to have everyone driving vehicles that cant; even meet 30 MPG being used as daily drivers. it was possible for governing powers to put mileage standards upon donmestic cars half a centry ago but the decision makers were never very foreward thinking. the economy revolves around building more , not building smarter.
I dont police the world and just like you , Ill drive what I want o but i can at least recognise where things went so terribly wrong I do not have solutions, any fix is greater than any personal impact I alone may make.
