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Originally Posted by dcb
NO, that is not the context you first used the term "sensibly" it in at all!!! It was in response to my statement about efficiency, and you said "Not if it were done sensibly", see here:
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If you read for meaning rather than going on a nit-picking expedition, you'll see that we have two things going on.
One, is it more "sensible" to have a pure electric car (with attendant range limits & risk of stranding), a pure gasoline car (using fossil fuel vs potentially renewable electricity), or a hybrid, combining advantages of both? I obviously think option 3 works pretty well.
Two, if you decide for the third option, is it sensible design to run all electricity produced through the batteries, incurring charge/discharge losses?