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Old 06-29-2010, 03:00 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
They could also get better efficiency by charging the battery and running the ICE at a constant RPM -- something you cannot do with an ICE driving the wheels.
That's what I thought, but in one of our previous Volt threads I posted a tidbit where the Volt engineers abandoned constant RPM in favor of a "range" of variable RPM/load settings.

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