Thank you! You did all the hardwork of proofing my point! From your quote:
- Mild hybrids do not need recharging.
- Hybrids do not need recharging.
- Plug-in hybrids need recharging only if you plan to drive them purely on electricity. Otherwise, they work like a hybrid.
- Electric vehicles always need recharging.
e-Ray, 992.2 do not need recharging, that's point 1, right off the bat.
Hybrid. That term was coined when the first Prius appeared. It has both gasoline and electric motors, that's the hybrid part. Cars with both drivetrains are called hybrid period. There was no distinction between mild or plugin, as plugin didn't exist yet.
After BYD got the first plugin hybrid to market, it was separate into plugin and mild. That's it, 2 categories. Nothing more. Everything else, like 'performance hybrid' is just a term, not a proper category.
There isn't also a proper 'full-hybrid' category. By default, all hybrids ARE full-hybrid. They are hybrid in their power delivery so they are all 'full hybrid'. You don't call a petro powered car 'full petrol' do you? And how you engineer a 'half' hybrid if you want to separate something to be called 'full' hybrid? Like, a car can only be powered either by the gas engine or the electric motor but not both at the same time?
Like, seriously, just stop. Zuffenhausen themselves used the term mild hybrid to communicate with me regarding their incoming. I have the target spec already and was asked if I would be interested in something like that, and my answer to them is no, they need to add the plugin capability first before getting my interest. It is a very very important attribute for a 'hybrid' car. I was like, do they want to be like the lowly Corvette or the Ferrari 296?
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