Lol, this is my point, I'm trying to make it add up and all we have to go on is a test of a couple kilometers expressed using doug palmears favorite term, mpgE, and some bizzare al gore reference
If you know ahead of time that some percentage of the population will not plug it in, then you have to account for that in any equivelant EPA mpg numbers. They are not Ping the E otherwise.
And if you don't think folks acting like and being treated like sheep costs you...
This is a good example. The parallel setup has higher peak efficiencies (believe me), but in the wrong hands will have lower efficiencies. But instead of educating people we assume they can't manage it.
Yes, the military can order people to charge the submarine.
but still I have listed 5 new conversion steps for series, which likely are only at their peak values some of the time, just like a real car. And nobody can say what the losses are at each step?
Do you know what hybrid mileage champs DON'T do? they DON'T charge the battery with the engine.
if you made a generous swag at those 5 extra conversions, and said they were each %95 efficient, you would be looking at a %23 drop in peak efficiency (vs parallel) in turning the gasoline energy into forward motion, if you are charging the batteries to push the car.