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The Bat/Gen Electric | Drawing The Line

You may have heard terms like “parallel hybrid� and “series hybrid,� but these do little to explain the technology to non-engineers. So, I’m going to go out on a limb and create a name for it. I call it a Bat/Gen Electric.There is a new category of automobile technology that doesn’t yet have a motorcycle equivalent, and it’ll be interesting to see if one will appear. The Chevy Volt is currently the leading example of this rare breed of car. It’s technically a “hybrid� in that it has both an electric motor and a gasoline engine. But that term, when applied to the Volt, is a bit confusing, in that most other hybrids, while having electric motors and internal combustion engines, also have drive systems for each power system. The Volt doesn’t.

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