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The paper describes major design choices and development process used to produce a prototype of a rear-wheel drive parallel hybrid electric vehicle. This diesel electric hybrid vehicle is different from other hybrid with regard to the powertrain. The paper focuses on the design, development and performance evaluation of this unique parallel diesel electric vehicle which is based on multimode hybrid powertrain comprised of a single planetary gear train as an additional transmission along with the manual gearbox of the conventional diesel vehicle and AC induction motor. The implementation of the new design enables to overcome many problems encountered in the traditional vehicles. Constant mesh spur type simple planetary gear set transmission is designed for the intended application. To demonstrate the practical applicability of the transmission and this hybrid configuration, one prototype vehicle is built integrating the transmission.