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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
I do think that we need to be able to distinguish between serial and parallel hybrids.
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To each their own ... But I disagree.
For me at least ... I think the time spent debating ,... or even initially learning / teaching about what is or is not a serial hybrid and why , or a parallel , or a mild, or a full ... etc... that same time spent learning how it actually works pros and cons ... will have gotten 'us' further ahead ... than debating about which one of 4 words to label it as.
And if we already learned how it actually works ... pros and cons ... than we would be further ahead than any of those labels could ever hope for ... and thus they could be skipped entirely... and we would be further ahead without them.
I think 'we' are all better off , when 'we' instead spend the time to learn a bit about how the systems actually work , including it's pros and cons ... and not trying to shoe horn all of mechanics , engineering, and science down into 1 of 4 words.
I don't see the one word label adding understanding to people ... I see it only serving as a barrier to actual understanding... and encouraging inaccurate or incorrect hierarchy assumptions... and more than once I've run into people who end up getting confused about how those 4 words are used in other fields , which don't always use them the way some people use them when talking about hybrids... which in itself is a negative effect of the effort to shoe horn it all down into one of those 4 words.
At least that is how I've seen it ... maybe other have seen it differently.
