Two lamps connected in series with an open switch and a cell ... Components that are connected on separate loops are connected in parallel. The current is shared between each component connected ...

A parallel circuit is way of connecting components on separate branches ... Because, unlike a simple string of lights in a series circuit, these are all arranged in a parallel circuit.

One of the slides in that presentation compared series and parallel hybrids and talked about the superiority of parallel as manifested in Toyota's Hybrid Synergy drive. Toyota wasn't able to ...