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Originally Posted by Ecky
The answer as to why it can't work all the time is this: Creating electricity is done by using electric motors to brake the car. You don't want to drive around with regenerative braking on all the time, it will ruin your fuel economy because your engine is fighting the motors trying to slow you down.
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Well, then I can't use regenerative braking all the time to recharge the system that is constantly on. So, then I have to resort to using an altermotor to provide the constant recharge, assuming the resistance from the altermotor does not hurt fuel mileage as much as using two hub motors on constant regeneration.
I will state this again, because I feel it is important for a new evolution of hybrid technology.
The resistance on the gasoline engine to fight the two hub regenerators should be offset by the use of the two hub motors that too will be fighting the resistance of their own recharging components. From this, engine fuel economy should not suffer that much, so goes the hypothesis in my mind.
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Originally Posted by Ecky
The only way you could use electricity constantly is if you had a source of it that was entirely free - such as plugging in your car at one of the free charging stations.
EDIT: Plug-in hybrids really do get assisted all the time. They do this by having huge batteries that you fill up at home, and run down as you drive.
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I would be willing to recharge my car to make up for the difference after driving an entire day. I am going to have to anyways even with a hybrid kit that is only used up to 45 mph speeds. I just wonder if I can hack the system to enable it's use for highway speeds and under conditions where the gasoline engine is losing vacuum. Here I run into problems, this could result in prolonged use, so how best to recharge the system? I suppose the altermotor is ideal.