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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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You're right, its a bad working definition. Let me try again
If the gas engine and the electric motors work together to power the wheels (gas+electric), its a parallel hybrid. If the gas engine is there to power a generator to power the electric motor (and not the wheels) its a series hybrid. The names work well if you understand what parallel and series electric circuits are, and are possibly meaningless if you don't. I've drawn up a diagram for each. Hopefully, its clearer than my words.