Direct drive mode

[Marco1979]

But who watches the screen with energy flow diagram...

If you want to know exactly what your car is doing! It is my standard screen 

To me this makes more sense than to have lights for EV on/off, engine on/off, generator on/off and whether it is serial or parallel etc. That would be a mess.

[stani]

IMHO, it would be enough for the driver's display, on each screen, to have three simple symbols of the driving mode that the car is currently using: pure electric motor, hybrid (the drive is provided by the electric motor, the combustion engine recharges the battery) and direct drive by the combustion engine.

[Marco1979]

IMHO, it would be enough for the driver's display, on each screen, to have three simple symbols of the driving mode that the car is currently using: pure electric motor, hybrid (the drive is provided by the electric motor, the combustion engine recharges the battery) and direct drive by the combustion engine.

True, but in direct drive also the EV can help if additional power is required or generation can occur when engine power is still available.
I can imagine that the current EV light (just on or off) will at least explain (absence of) engine noise to the driver.

[Downsizer]

IMHO, it would be enough for the driver's display, on each screen, to have three simple symbols of the driving mode that the car is currently using: pure electric motor, hybrid (the drive is provided by the electric motor, the combustion engine recharges the battery) and direct drive by the combustion engine.

Perhaps it would be best if no attempt were made to display what’s going on, which changes constantly, and just rely on the car doing what it’s designed to do!
But life would be duller I suppose. What would we discuss?

[stani]

Well, I'd be quite interested to see what driving mode I'm currently in.

[Jazzik]

To be honest, I don't give a d@mn what driving mode our Jazz is in, as long as it gets us where we want to be in the comfortable, economical and safe mode. All three modes at the same time, please.