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Why hasn't any EU automaker jumped on the hybrid technology?
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endymion wrote:

I also wonder why no one's come up with Diesel-Electric hybrids which seem like an even better idea than either diesel or gas-electric hybrids.

Good point. From what I have read the main reason has been the lack of availability of low sulphur diesel fuel in the USA which is the main hybrid market. Diesel-Electric makes huge sense and a lot of the technology for this exists albeit in large format. Afaik a large number of diesel locomotives are in "hybrids" - the diesel just generates the power for the electric motors that drive the train.
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Re: Why hasn't any EU automaker jumped on the hybrid technology? - by simonm - 12-03-2008, 01:43 AM

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