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The parallel hybrids are really genius. At the heart of the Prius design is a simple planetary gear and two eletric motors that forms a power split device. Wha
by Gibbon1 4y ago
The parallel hybrids are really genius. At the heart of the Prius design is a simple planetary gear and two eletric motors that forms a power split device.
What makes it different from a normal planetary gear train is you have a motor generator MG1 on the engine and MG2 one the ring gear. The deal is you have a mechanical power path via the planetary gears. And you have a parallel electric power path between MG1 and MG2 (and the battery). In the end it's a just a CVT.
It's conceptually more complicated, but probably not in practice.
- theshrike79 4y agoYeah, the Prius eCVT really spoiled me for any other style of power transfer. Even the smoothest automatic felt like crap after it. So, naturally, the only choice upwards from there was fully electric for me =)