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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (503984)	8/12/2009 5:08:39 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580450

"The kinetic energy that is being reharvested through regenerative braking came from gasoline." Correct. And the more efficiently you can recover it, the less gasoline gets burned. "That's rich coming from a guy who hasn't figured out the Law of Conservation of Energy." This looking for what you perceive as "gotchas" to the point that you totally distort other people's arguments is a peculiar affliction that you have caught from i-node. I fully understand the Law of Conservation of Energy. I also understand how cars work. Plugged in or not, the Volt is going to be a lot more efficient than a regular hybrid. Less losses to drive train is one. Electric motors are a better match to a car than a gasoline engine because they can deliver high torque at stall or near stall conditions and are efficient over a wide range of speeds, unlike a gas engine. So the transmission can be simpler and with the gas engine being used to recharge the battery, it can be run more efficiently overall. I would say "but you already knew this", but I am not so sure.