Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle

krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some do if the belt drives the compressor. Humans have built many cars, exceptions exist

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  • krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Belts drive the clutch. I haven’t seen a single production car that has a direct driven compressor.

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    • monotremata@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My family had two volvos that behaved like this. One was an '81 Volvo 240 DL manual, and the other was a '92 Volvo 740 automatic. Both of them could get up to highway speed noticeably faster if you turned off the A/C. (My dad used to say they’d “do 0 to 60 on a leisurely afternoon.”) There’s some chance that A/C was aftermarket on the '81, so maybe that’s a factor? But the '92 did it too, and that was definitely stock.

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      • krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I can believe it, i was talking about cars made this century. The care from the 1900’s were something else.

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Im thinking of something where an electric motor does it so probably a hybrid… Maybe a Lexus

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      • krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Then turning it off doesn’t give you more power in those cases.

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