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It's hard to look at it from a growth perspective, which is what finance normally seeks to achieve.You engineers should imagine this from a finance-geek perspective (like myself) ...
Look at it more like a retirement fund that's not replenished very often (fuel-ups).
- you have long term investments (gas tank) that you tap rarely, preferably at market peaks (highest efficiency).
- you also have short term, liquid investments (battery, terrain) you tap to keep the car moving.
- the goal is to keep moving with least damage to those fragile long term investments, which can be lost completely (idling).
"Pulse and glide" is as simple as cashing in retirement investments and putting the money in the bank, then living on it as long as you can, given the traffic and the weather and what, maybe a pandemic? Sorry, I'm a retired engineer. This is how I actually see it.
Note: the unit of energy, 1 Megajoule = 0.277778 kWh
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