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Doctor Drivel wrote:
You are missing the whole point. It is not a plug in hybrid in the
previous sense.
The engine is not mechanically connected to the drive train. It's
like an electric car but you carry round a petrol generator to charge
the battery when required. Engine runs at constant speed.

Using a highly taxed fuel to generate electricity? Very logical.

Regeneration recovers potential and kinetic energy and stores it in
the battery.

Which has its uses under some conditions.

Must be fiendishly complex, heavy and expensive.
It is an attempt to cover all bases.


It is fiendishly simple, and cheap to run. Mass production will drop the
price to nothing.

And the Pious has dropped to near nothing during its production run? I've
got news for you...

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