Re:How the Upcoming Mazda RX-9 Will Keep the Spirit of the R...
by eigenspace on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:30AM
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Ah good to know about the name "Series Hybrid", I've only ever heard people call a Series Hybrid a "Plug-In Hybrid" even in somewhat official and educational contexts, but I suspect that's just a symptom of the problem I was complaining about.
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Re:How the Upcoming Mazda RX-9 Will Keep the Spirit of the R...
by sjm-lbm on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:44AM
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For sure. And, at the risk of being pedantic, a plug-in hybrid can still be a parallel hybrid - series vs. parallel is about how the ICE power gets to the ground, whereas plug-in vs not is about the existence of a way to charge the hybrid battery packs separate from the ICE engine or regenerative breaking (or whatever else that's not electric power from a wall outlet).
Re:How the Upcoming Mazda RX-9 Will Keep the Spirit of the R...
by usrusr on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:19PM
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And most plug-in hybrids are (parallel). The "plug in" part is usually referring to (even if technically wrong) the electric subset being able to reasonably move the car alone, instead of being just a substitute to the ICE in near-idle cruise and an assistance at peak load. The combination of reasonable utility electric-only and serial is usually referred to as "electric with range extender" instead of hybrid.