Posted on 11/07/2023 6:06:24 AM PST by Red Badger
“Hybrid” can encompass several configurations. Toyota seems to have the best layout for passenger cars and SUVs. They use the electrics to provide primary propulsion with a small ICE to charge the battery and to provide extra or emergency propulsion.
Switching the primary and backup propulsion for trucks seems reasonable, but with such a large primary ICE or diesel, why bother with the extra complexity of the electrics? You basically have a hydrocarbon-based vehicle anyway ...
FUBAR
Isn’t that a “hybrid”?
“Maybe I’m overlooking something.”
Maybe it’s a matter of how much of your driving uses electricity from the grid, versus electricity from the onboard gas generator.
Perhaps a much smaller battery compensates for the weight of the gas-powered generator.
Stellantis is putting another option for us on the market. That’s a good thing.
A reverse hybrid................
Suppose it was simply a normal truck powered by a 6-cylinder piston engine.
Would you consider 3.6 liters displacement to be too much, not enough, or just right?
Cut through all the hype, and that's what it's doing ... it's using a piston engine to drive an electric generator to run electric motors to make the wheels spin. It's a railroad locomotive.
If I’m reading it right, it’s an interesting concept. Not sure I want it ... Absolutely sure I don’t want the government involved in it at all ... but it’s interesting.
A combination of clutch, torque converter, and differential is not the only way to get power from a piston engine to the drive wheels. The battery allows for regenerative braking, which may save enough fuel to pay for itself.
Cost per mile to operate vs ice only?
Diesel electric locomotive comes to mind.
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No it can't, it's an EV powered by fossil fuels most likely chole.
That’s an ugly vehicle.
What’s the weight of this beast??
It’s got to be quite heavy w/ the EV battery, the EV electric motor and the conventional ICE engine/battery charger and powertrain.
All kidding aside, about a year ago I read about a cross country off-road rig that did this with a fairly small set of batteries and a reliable good generator, probably a Honda, that just ran at a steady rpm like most generators do.
If I remember correctly this shop-built side by side rig could go over 2000 miles on one tank full of regular gas. It was made for off-road use so I assume the speed was kept under 40 mph most the time with occasional bursts of 50+ mph.
I believe this was a one-off built as proof of concept.
Here’s a company that manufactures hybrid side by side’s. https://www.huntve.com/copy-of-onrange-4x2-1
What is that, a 4-foot bed? Why bother with a pickup, then?
So it’s actually a hybrid with that starts with a small ICE while the rest of the powertrain is all-electric. Ineffecient but simple to engineer.
I cut out the middleman. My 2014 Corolla has a 1.6 liter ICE that is directly coupled to the transmission! How’s that for technology?
Seems to me it’s effectively an inverted hybrid.
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