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current hybrids use the electric motor as a starter motor, so they've clearly sorted out whatever issue they were having.
Why (there must be a good reason) would an alternator produce AC which has to be converted to DC, when a dynamo could just produce DC from the start? Maybe for voltage regulation? (an alternator without a regulator would produce too much juice at high RPM - it makes peak power usually around 3000rpm, that much I know)
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