Doctor Drivel wrote:
harry wrote:

Ordinary cars are complex, and prone to breakdowns, while the Ampera
is simple

Electric cars/hybrids are extremely complex.

They are NOT.

Hybrids are at least as complex as a normal car for the mechanical bits,
with the added complexity of all the electrical equipment and mechanical
arrangements to handle the division of drive between the electric and
internal combustion motors.

Electric cars are also complex, as they have equipment on them to use
regenerative braking, battery charging and motor control. The last
simple electric vehicles were the old fashioned trolleybuses with the
resistive controllers, and even modern trolleybuses and trams use much
more complex stuff than that. Our hybrid buses at work are *much* more
difficult to work on than our normal buses.

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Tciao for Now!

John.