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Originally Posted by IamIan
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.
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I would not say I disagree here with your perspective or Neils. Hybrids and there designs are complicated. There are 1000 ways to skin a cat and well there are many different ways to hybridize a vehicle. The end result is still the same the cat is skinned and the car is a hybrid! Whether we call it a micro, mild, or full hybrid its still using hybrid technology to try and create a more efficient transportation option over ICE only vehicles. Classifying hybrids into these 3 categories is merely a way to explain there level of hybridization. Now is the average Joe that does not even know how to perform a basic oil change gonna be able to differentiate between the 3 no its very unlikely! A person that is educated on hybrid design will however, and be able to easily understand how its configured.
The day has come where hybrids will begin to play a much larger role in personal transportation as we will begin to see more and more of them on our local roads. Some people by default will be come much more educated on there designs and of course there will still be the ones who could care less and are happy with there ICE only car. I think in the next 75 years or less hybrids will be very mainstream and we will be hard pressed at least here in the US to purchase an ICE only car in fact it may very well be against the law to drive an ICE only car due to tougher emissions standards as well as proposed fuel economy standards! The future is going to get very interesting to say the least.
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