a 1% reduction in fuel and power consumption
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UK firm's 98% efficient hybrid motor delivers record performance
Submitted 13 hours ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to physics@mander.xyz
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/uk-firm-efficient-hybrid-transmission-motor
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rimu@piefed.social 12 hours ago
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
To be clear, this doesn’t make a hybrid 98% efficient.
The problem with hybrid cars isn’t really the 2% loss in the electric part. It’s not even the complexity of combining two motors and a generator in a single drive train. It’s not even the staggeringly shitty 40-50% efficiency, it’s the whole guzzling dinosaur juice thing.