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  • SEO is one reason that’s less common.

    No it isn’t. SEO is about gaming the search engines to place their data ahead of everything whether relevant or not.

    Yahoo was fantastic in it’s time because it was human curated. No SEO could bullshit a person reading the page and categorizing it.

    Google was fantastic at the start because SEO couldn’t game the system. Google was famous in the early days for maintaining quality by keeping their algorithms secret and constantly changing so that SEO couldn’t break their search.

    I’m speaking as someone who was first on the Internet in the 80’s.





  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldtohmmm@lemmy.worldhmmm
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    I suppose I could see how that could math out, assuming the engine running at an appropriate RPM to transmit to the wheels isn’t less fuel efficient than an engine running at an appropriate RPM to generate electricity.

    That’s exactly what the car does in real time. My Toyota switches constantly between the ice engine transferring energy to the electric motors and the electric motors turning off when they are outside of their most efficient range.

    It has an onscreen graphic to show you while you drive for the curious. It has another screen that gives you a driving score to encourage a driving style that maximizes efficiency like having the battery recharge more by braking longer and smoother.



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    I’ve been asking forever why we aren’t seeing gasoline electric vehicles

    They’re called hybrids. The reason they’re not in series is because it’s more efficient once the engine is at “cruise” speed to just let the engine spin the wheels directly instead of losing 15% going engine to electric then electric to electric motor.

    So instead of a transmission, hybrids use a planetary differential. That way everything is always spinning at maximum efficiency.