“It doesn’t take a “firm grasp of physics” to understand the problem, just a little bit of common sense. When your only source of energy to move a vehicle is gas (or diesel fuel), it takes less fuel to directly drive the vehicle with a single combustion engine than it does to carry along another engine and generator to charge the batteries in a BEV.”
No it’s not common sensew
YOU ARE WRONG and the numbers prove it. That plug in Dodge is going to get 35+ mpg double what the ICE version does.
No ICE car can get 108 mpg. Or 2.2L/100km
https://www.adamasintel.com/1300-mile-range-14000-chinese-ev-you-wont-get-in-us/
^^^^^ this is how it works in the real world not your head. Notice they ran the pack to zero then let the generator take them the rest of the way all 1200+ miles of it the pack only did the first 70 ish miles. This alone proves the point.
This car drives the wheels off the generator there is no mechanical transmission AT ALL. It is more efficient because you only run the small high speed generator at 40+ percent brake thermal eff. Modern electronics are 98% eff in both directions it is now way more eff to make electrons and drive an EDU vs load following with an engine and mechanical transmission. Flat out you are world period full stop.
Again this is why the identical Camry is 51 vs 28 the 51 is electrical driven the other is not.
If you will recall, your comment was about “putting a generator in the trunk” of a BEV. If you care to have a thoughtful discussion of parallel vs. series hybrids, you should start a clean thread, and not waste any more of my time answering a different question than was posed.
“Again this is why the identical Camry is 51 vs 28 the 51 is electrical driven the other is not.”
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Read your posts - understood most of them. My lane is RF - radios, radars, transmitters, associated equipment. Lotsa time working aircraft - 400Hz power.
All your writing basically boils down to your last line quoted above. Can’t argue with results.
Drove a Camry from Wichita to Marietta GA and back. Got 57MPG and I am not a light-footed driver.
Toyota has the hybrid technology pretty well nailed down.