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Old 03-22-2011, 01:03 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Small4Seater View Post
This is not really a hybrid when only the electric motors power the wheels. It's the same principle behind diesel-electric train engines.
No, it's just the opposite of a diesel-electric train, where the electric motor/generator is only acting as a transmission. (If trains are hybrids, then so is every car with an automatic transmission a hydraulic hybrid :-)) The Porsche design had both batteries and an IC engine.
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