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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Does no one remember the calor totem from the 80s. It supplied the
electricity needs of three households but the achilles heel was engine
life was only about a year, 1100cc FIAT I think.

Cars (of that type) are only designed for 3000 hours use.
That gets you to roughly 100,000 miles at an average 30MPH.

There's a very big difference between normal start stop driving and
running at constant load, on an engine's life.

If it really were designed for a 3000 hour life with normal use, I'd
expect many times that with a generator. Presumably with the engine
running at somewhere near maximum torque, so therefore efficiency.

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