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Originally Posted by instarx
Neither your wiki quote nor the wiki article itself says that locomotives are hybrids, serial or otherwise. You cut and pasted sentences out of context and their meaning got turned on its head. In fact, the "concept" that the wiki article says has been used by locomotives for years is wheel-motors, not hybridization. So you aren't working off the definition of a hybrid provided by wiki at all.
One cannot just cut and paste sentences together until they say what one wants them to say.
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Seriously, it needs to explicitly state it? Can we not take definition and use a tiny bit of brain power for pattern recognition?
If you really need explicit statements, here's the wiki article on hybrid vehicles, that explicitly states and backs up what RH77....
Hybrid vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here's the text, all of it from the section, not just a few sentences (emphasis added)
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Heavy vehicles
Hybrid power trains are used for diesel-electric or turbo-electric railway locomotives, buses, heavy goods vehicles, mobile hydraulic machinery, and ships. Typically some form of heat engine (usually diesel) drives an electric generator or hydraulic pump which power one or more electric or hydraulic motors. There are advantages in distributing power through wires or pipes rather than mechanical elements especially when multiple drives—e.g. driven wheels or propellers—are required. There is power lost in the double conversion from typically diesel fuel to electricity to power an electric or hydraulic motor. With large vehicles the advantages often outweigh the disadvantages especially as the conversion losses typically decrease with size. Presently there is no or relatively little energy storage capacity on most heavy vehicles, e.g. auxiliary batteries and hydraulic accumulators—this is changing.
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