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Old 05-23-2012, 09:21 PM   #7 (permalink)
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It's a parallel hybrid in the reverse of how I had considered one. If you had an EV and you wanted to get long range, you could put a small engine on a setup similar to this and drive at highway speeds in a single gear.

I wonder how it deals with turning scrub; assuming that the single wheel is only pivoting up and down?
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