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Hybrid Electric Vehicles

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Hybrid vehicles are so defined because their propulsion systems are equipped with two energy sources, complementing each other: a high-capacity storage (typically a chemical fuel in liquid or gaseous form.

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Onori, S., Serrao, L., Rizzoni, G. (2016). Introduction. In: Hybrid Electric Vehicles. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6781-5_1

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