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Originally Posted by Ganthrithor
Fuck all hybrid cars forever. Hybrids are just the shittiest of shitty ideas: either convert to clean power generation and electric cars, or build smaller, lighter, more fuel-efficient combustion cars. Use diesels in utility-oriented cars and efficient gas engines in sporty cars.
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Least efficient part of using an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is start-stop driving, which isn't an issue for electric propulsion (which only uses the energy you need). Electric propulsion doesn't have the energy storage to do long distance cruising like ICE's can, so why would combining them to cover the weak points of each be a bad thing? You get increased efficiency off your old infrastructure (ICE/fossil fuels) while developing the future technology and infrastructure (Electric). It's a good idea, but anyone who thinks it's more than an in between step is fooling themselves. Problem is, we need this stepping stone to get to the future.
No argument that they're mostly boring and soulless and I'd rather do fossil fuels or all electric, but blindly bashing on hybrids is not an intelligent position.