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Old 03-05-2021, 05:07 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JSH View Post
Toyota, Honda, GM, Ford and pretty much every other manufacturer that has made a dedicated hybrid came to that conclusion.

The Nissan Note with e-boost is the only dedicated serial hybrid I can think of.
There's some point between the size of a sedan and the size of a locomotive that a series design begins to make sense. Full-sized pickup trucks with 10 speed transmissions may benefit.

Don't those enormous mining dump trucks use a series configuration?
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