[Gay State Conservative]

No it's not. A “hybrid” has a gasoline (or diesel) engine capable of propelling the car for hundreds of miles. The battery is just to give it a boost or to allow the car to do a three mile round trip to the supermarket.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Anything with both batteries/electric motors and a gasoline engine is a hybrid. You can configure the drive train many ways, but it is a hybrid electric/ICE.

[ByteMercenary]

“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 ...