why vehicles use 12v electric systems? Why a seemingly strange arbitrary figure like 12? Why not 10?

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why vehicles use 12v electric systems? Why a seemingly strange arbitrary figure like 12? Why not 10?

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Basically you need a fairly large voltage to get the car started (rather than use a crank handle) initially this was 6 volt but increased to12 to cope with engines with a high compression ratio which need more power to get them going.

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