So, this is something I thought about on the way to work the other day.
I was driving on the motorway when I saw a car pull into the faster lane to overtake a lorry. As he floored it to accelerate quickly, a huge plume of white steam came from the exhaust.
What I noticed was that the car was a plug-in hybrid!
The driver had probably been cruising using just the batter and motors. Then, when they needed power just stamped on the accelerator. The engine must have fired up and revved up high as the car took off like a rocket.
Bearing in mind this was on a cold winter morning and this was probably the first time that the engine had started that morning and it was straight into a high rev and high load situation.
Does anyone know if car makers do anything to mitigate this? Is there a way of pre-heating the block maybe or the oils are super thin and ready to lubricate anyway.
It sounds like a recipe for a broken engine to me.
What are you guys thoughts?
I was driving on the motorway when I saw a car pull into the faster lane to overtake a lorry. As he floored it to accelerate quickly, a huge plume of white steam came from the exhaust.
What I noticed was that the car was a plug-in hybrid!
The driver had probably been cruising using just the batter and motors. Then, when they needed power just stamped on the accelerator. The engine must have fired up and revved up high as the car took off like a rocket.
Bearing in mind this was on a cold winter morning and this was probably the first time that the engine had started that morning and it was straight into a high rev and high load situation.
Does anyone know if car makers do anything to mitigate this? Is there a way of pre-heating the block maybe or the oils are super thin and ready to lubricate anyway.
It sounds like a recipe for a broken engine to me.
What are you guys thoughts?