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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Is a Honda Insight a hybrid? It cannot push the car with just the electric motor. And the electricity in the battery comes from the gasoline.
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Actually it can (at least if you have MIMA installed), though it's not a good idea to do it for very long. But you have the electric motor adding power at times, which isn't true of the diesel-electric train, where (once again) the electrics are just a transmission. Something that isn't true of the Insight, which would run just fine, if a bit sluggishly, without the electric motor.