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Functions like a transmission in some senses |= a transmission.
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A diesel electric train uses such a transmission, just like a torque converter.
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It *is* two motors, and the electricity is the common factor that lets them be used together.
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and without a recharge/regen facility it is just a transmission. You don't get to store energy and downsize the ICE.
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Neither motor can do it on it's own, and since both are used/combined/hybridized, that is certainly what a hybrid is at it's most basic. I don't understand why this isn't obvious.
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It is obviously an identical scheme to a torque converter. Just because electricity is involved instead of hydraulic flow doesn't change the fact that it transmits power from the engine to the wheels.
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...Some call an ICE car with the alternator only used when braking to charge the 12V starter battery, a form of hybrid.
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That's a poor excuse for a hybrid.
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A serial hybrid, to my mind is an EV with a range extender
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ok, but your EV comes with a battery and that is what makes it a hybrid.
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that then allows the ICE to be used at it's peak efficiency all the time
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it also means that the motor and/or generator will likely NOT be at their peak efficiency, the ICE AND the generator AND the motor can't all be at peak efficiency at the same time, and you still get ~%20 losses when the transmission does happen to be at peak efficiency.
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and allows it to be a smaller displacement because it only needs to meet the average power level, not the peak.
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and an engine that does not have the efficiency losses of running a generator/controller/motor for all its power can be smaller yet. You can still add or remove electric power in parallel if you happen to be in a situation where that would be desireable.
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It eliminates the need for a transmission.
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The motor and generator transmit their energy to the motor, there is still a transmission of power involved. And what people have against transmissions is beyond me, but you are embracing a horribly inefficient alternative and still ignorant of it after years of having it explained to you.
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An EV is about 2-3X more efficient than any ICE, and so why would adding range to an EV with a genset, suddenly turn the electric motor into a mere transmission?
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Because that is what it becomes from the ICEs perspective. The ICE has to transmit it's power to the wheels one way or another.
Why do you want to do things so inefficiently?