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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
So, any discussions should reference actual parallel hybrids.
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The rules MUST be the same for series. But the closest comparison noted so far was the edison 2 which reported 100-120 mpg as a gas car (with an alternator and starting battery) vs a generator in the trunk of the electric model reporting 44 mpg on the road (1500 lb car that takes 5 hp at cruise, do the math).
And electric motors only seem efficient by comparison because they burned all the coal already in charging the battery, if you looked at the efficiency from the coals perspective (like the fuels perspective) it would be an entirely different story. The abstracting of the energy source leads to some lazy thinking, be it a power plant or a generator.