Resolved Question: Car companies did Hybrid engines wrong,do you agree?

29 January 2012, 10:04 am

Why would companies use electric motors and batteries with a gas powered "back-up" engine, or "synergy Drive", which still uses a good bit of gas, in most cases only about a 30% increase in MPG, instead of using a more powerful set of electric motors couple with a small, lets say 1.0 liter 4 cylinder engine, to keep the battery charged only? Doesn't this make ore sense to people? have an electric car that you don't have to plug in, ever, with a gas engine that would keep the battery charged and get( probably) around 100/150 MPGs they could even use and smaller, 2 stroke engine to charge the battery!!! Why didn't they think of this and use this type of hybrid?!?!... Read More »

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