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Originally Posted by oldtamiyaphile
The Koenigsegg One is a hybrid. Supposedly the fastest production car in the world. Lamborghini will have to follow Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren into hybrids if they want to be faster than an electric sedan.
As far as aerodynamic drag goes, if you look at all the 'poor' aero cars, they all share a poor fineness ratio, they're tall boxy practical designs that will never match the sleeker shapes from Mercedes or Tesla.
There's also the payback to consider, just like going from 10mpg to 20 is a huge jump, while going from 50mpg to 60 isn't really a lot, going from 0.28 to 0.20 probably isn't worth the cost and (styling and practicality) compromise.
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The One:1 is not a hybrid...do you mean the Regera?
"Given this, the
Regera is not what we at Koenigsegg would call a hybrid, as it does not have the traditional shortcomings of a hybrid. Instead, the Regera is a new breed of Koenigsegg – and car for that matter.
Traditional, so called parallel, hybrids are compromised and heavy, as they have two independent propulsion systems. Alternatively, series hybrids are less compromised when it comes to weight, complexity and costs, but instead they are compromised when it comes to efficiency, as there is too much energy conversion going on.
This brings us to the Koenigsegg Direct Drive Transmission or KDD for short – invented by Christian von Koenigsegg and developed for the Regera by the Koenigsegg Advanced Engineering team.
The patent pending
KDD system replaces the combustion engines traditional transmission and gives the added benefit of pure EV mode. What is unique is that the KDD manages to create direct drive to rear axle from the combustion engine without the need of multitude gears or other traditional types of variable transmissions, with inherently high energy losses."
This, and more found here:
Regera - Koenigsegg | Koenigsegg
I absolutely agree on the fineness ratio, a major component. But I would not consider the Regera a hybrid, at least not in our common sense of the word. Lamborghini is [supposedly] working on a limited edition hybrid to put them in their place (paraphrasing) and show they can do it, but their focus remains advancing what already works more efficiently, or to move in the Koenigsegg path and find a system that does not have the drawbacks of a hybrid system.