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Originally Posted by mechman600
Getting a modern [clean] diesel to work in a hybrid application will be difficult, given the start/stop nature of a hybrid.
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But a hybrid doesn't have to be stop-start, particularly a plug-in with reasonable all-electric range. The engine should only run (simplistically) when the battery is depleted to a set level, and would run long enough, at a high & steady load, to bring the battery up to full charge. So the engine would only be running at that steady state, which AFAIK would be the best possible conditions for the aftertreatment systems.