Which AFAIK is more efficient (no losses on converting kinetic to electric, electric to chemical, and back: chemical to electric and then to kinetic).
Which AFAIK is more efficient (no losses on converting kinetic to electric, electric to chemical, and back: chemical to electric and then to kinetic).
Toyota has the best one. No clutch at all, can drive only combustion engine
Renault's version doesn't have a clutch either.
Renault has a dog clutch.
And the Toyota has planetary gears.
Both offer direct, mechanical engagement that avoids the continuous friction slip of a wet clutch.
Which was the point.
I forgot which marketing name it was, but one of Honda 1-motor systems that used the motor in clutch pack had a major design oversight that it can't handle a traffic jam in an incline, which happens in (of all places)Japan; the HV battery runs out and the car needs to be towed and/or driven at higher speed to both cool down and fill back up. Generator plus traction 2-motor systems feel stupid but it's necessary to cover those situations.