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I understand yourpoint and fundamentally you are correct. GMs point is that the engine never propels the vehicle, it only supplies electricity. So if you had a solar cell on the roof of the car that supplied electricity (a bogus proposition today) would you still call it a hybrid because it had two sources of electricity?
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Well, I was thinking of another example after I wrote that reply: a fuel cell vehicle. They're electrically driven, and have an on board device to generate electricity from another energy source, in this case a hydrogen fuel cell. I would consider them to be a hybrid, so I must therefore also consider a solar car a hybrid as well since it follows the exact same line of thinking, just with another energy source being substituted. A solar-electric hyrid, vs a gas-electric or hydrogen-electric.
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Originally Posted by Number 3
A lot of "marketing" lingo for sure.
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Ah ... marketing. No wonder I don't understand.