Quote from: RubGoose on October 19, 2022, 07:12:31I mean, either way, this just defeats the whole purpose of the EV. You might aswell just by a benzin car at this point.
Diesel-electric systems are the most efficient stored energy to mechanical energy powertrains in existence.
He mentioned in the video that his next iteration will be with a diesel engine.
This is called a series-hybrid, and it's what cat makers should have been doing since day 1 of hybrids. Instead, they went for parallel-hybrids, which are impractical by comparison.
I do find it interesting that the author called it an odd hybrid, when this type of hybrid had been standard in the transportation industry for make decades.