On Saturday, 20 August 2016 13:39:42 UTC+1, NY wrote:
"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
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In article ,
Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Friday, 19 August 2016 22:32:50 UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:25:56 -0700, harry wrote:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...e/netherlands-
petrol-car-ban-law-bill-to-be-passed-reduce-climate-change-emissions-
a7197136.html

All cars to be electric.

Well, that's a bit of a leap. Banning sale, not use.

And not until 2025.

And the legislation is not a certainty.

If the legislation goes through, I presume the Netherlands will invest
heavily in recharging points. Hopefully by 2025 battery technology will have
improved enough for people to be able to make long journeys by electric cars
without having to stop every n-hundred miles for an overnight recharging
stop.

If I could get an electric car that had the same range (700 miles per
filling) and the same refill time (about 5 mins max for 60 litres / 700
miles) then I might consider an electric car. I wonder what they are like to
drive. I presume electric cars have a single-speed gearing between motor and
wheels, ad can set off from the motor being at rest, without needing a
variety of ratios to match a limited range of motor speeds to a wide range
of road speeds and without needing a clutch.

Do hybrid cars use mechanical transmission from the IC engine to the wheels,
or are they permanently driven by the motor, with power coming either from
the batteries or the engine driving a generator?

There are various designs.
The simplest is a front wheel drive ICE with and electric rear wheel drive.
The mechanical connection is the highway.

There are series designs (similar to submarines and parellel devices.
I expect at some point one system or the other will come out on top.

Electric "motors" and "generators" are the same thing.
In electric cars one device does both.