The electric motors provide power to the wheel directly and don’t need lots of energy sapping transmissions and gears
The swame is true of very large earth moving machines and trucks
It works well and does away with the hydraulics and all the plumbing.
Yes, I know about LeTourneaus for instance. I was just wondering. Yes, you have the instant torque of the electric motor. So a diesel in a hybrid would make sense but no one is running one, and they aren’t running them the way a diesel electric runs either, they are using the little gas engine for motive power and electricity generation both. Sounds kinda inefficient to me.