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Originally Posted by a_Username
If your definitions are correct, then why did GM call it an EV? But I would like to question that definition of a parallel hybrid. The way you worded it seems as if a car could be gasoline only, i.e. with no other power source besides gasoline, and still be called a parallel hybrid by that definition; this is unless this definition counts the addition of a simple battery found in every car as the other power source.
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A parallel hybrid is a vehicle which will feed the transmission from the electrical source AND the gasoline source at the same time. The Volt does this at 70 mph.
A series hybrid is when the gasoline engine (generator) must send it's energy through the electrical system to get to the transmission.