The excess fuel consumed by cars when starting from cold.

Author(s)
Everall B.A. & J. Northrop.
Year
Abstract

This report describes an investigation carried out to determine the extra amount of fuel used when a car is started from cold, and so refines the estimates of fuel consumption made in earlier work. The main conclusion is that the extra fuel used in starting from cold would be sufficient to allow the car to travel an additional 1½ to 2½ kilometers; this distance increases with decrease in air temperature and increases with increase in average speed.

Publication

Library number
A 5309 [electronic version only] IRRD 50431.
Source

Crowthorne, Road Research Laboratory RRL, 1970, 22 p., ref., tab.; RRL Report 315.

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