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Re:SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compr... by komali2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:21PM (#14960883)
Total individual perspective here, but my dad took me on his worksite like 15 years ago to see the big super gorram awesome trucks (seriously those things are HUGE). When I asked about the engines, he said the trucks had massive diesel generators that powered motors, that in turn powered the wheels and hydraulics. So in a way, lots of construction equipment has kind of already been "hybrid."
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Re:SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compr... by ClassyJacket on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:12PM (#14961450)
I believe that's also how diesel trains work.
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Re:SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compr... by pkulak on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:13PM (#14963416)
And submarines.
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Re:SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compr... by fnj on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:03PM (#14961937)
An electric power transmission is hardly hybrid. You just have two extra conversions in your transmission, mechanical to electric and electric back to mechanical.
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Re:SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compr... by jhayward on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:42PM (#14963656)
The diesel-electric system used in Locomotives and heavy off-road mining trucks are literally examples of series hybrids. You may be objecting to ththe lack of battery storage, which isn't useful in those applications.
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