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> if you count hybrids With the imminent 48volt revolution in ICE cars, any vehicle can be a hybrid with next to no engineering at all. The leap from electrif
by djrogers 9y ago
> if you count hybrids
With the imminent 48volt revolution in ICE cars, any vehicle can be a hybrid with next to no engineering at all.
The leap from electrified to electric is huge, so comparing the two is kinda silly.
- hvidgaard 9y agoGoing from ICE to Hybrid is not "next to no engineering at all". Not even close. To be a hybrid you take an existing car, put in everything you would in an electric car, except smaller and you have to place alongside the ICE. The gearbox is none trivial to make to incorporate both efficiently. It's simpler to make a fully electric car, than a hybrid, 48v ICE or not.
- ianai 9y agoAnecdote: my rav4 hybrid really impresses upon me how complicated hybrids must be to engineer. It’s tempting to see it as “just two electric motors, a battery pack, and an ICE drive train”. But it’s clearly juggling many factors to figure out the optimal source of each increment of force.