> Wouldn’t hybrids be more efficient if the gas/diesel was just generating electricity for an electric drivetrain? They do this for logging and mining trucks.

> Wouldn’t hybrids be more efficient if the gas/diesel was just generating electricity for an electric drivetrain? They do this for logging and mining trucks. They might be more “efficient” from a maintenance point of view, but they will have worse gas mileage then gas/electric. Anytime you have to transform the energy to another form you loose some of power. So ICE > drivetrain will be more efficient then ICE > generator > drivetrain.