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You are right. Hybrid engines are not looking like the safe & reliable middle-ground between solid & liquid engines that they were made out to be.

• JshWright 12y ago
  "The best of both worlds" has an often overlooked twin sibling.. "The worst of both worlds"
  • smacktoward 12y ago
    Or as it's sometimes formulated, "the sports car-slash-dump truck problem." In other words, you can build a great sports car, or a great dump truck. But there's no way to build a great sports car that is also a great dump truck.
    • csours 12y ago
      Maybe not, but you can always pivot[1]! http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/transportation/advanced-cars/ian-wright-is-turning-garbage-trucks-and-fedex-vans-into-high-performance-evs http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/transportation...
  • erobbins 12y ago
    all the performance of solids with all the complexities of liquids!
  • sib 12y ago
    "The only thing in the middle of the road is yellow lines and dead armadillos."