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I guess the point is that maintaining the status quo in driver education while advancing the technology to suit is a sub-optimal proposition. The reason we have this forum is in part to address that situation, and humans can be expected to be better than they are also, and as in your charge termination scheme, they are the ones that know what they want to do and have the ability to predict what will happen, and know when to stop charging the batteries (or get off the gas pedal or ???). And drivers can learn how to manage energy better today, for like zero cost, and with some of the most trivial of modifications.

best efficiency is had from a symbiosis of driver and vehicle, that fact should never be ignored or discarded. Hybrids are at a disadvantage compared to a driver with good technique.