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Electric Vehicles and Hybrids

CliveS

The advantage of electric vehicles is to reduce carbon emissions and these can be charged at home and if you are lucky may even be charged by a solar panel on your roof. Excellent.

But some hybrids do not have a home charger socket and also no way of switching on to electric only when in city centres.  

Can someone please explain to me how these hybrids can be more efficient than an identical none electric car which does not have to carry an extra battery etc?   

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    As we all know, the early hybrids (now called mild hybrids or even self charging hybrids) use a much smaller engine so use less fuel. The tiny (relatively small) battery boosts the performance when needed.

    My colleague was (and still is) a fan - he boasted of his 55MPG from his new hybrid some years ago when a typical petrol engine would only do 40MPG. I got 60MPG from my dirty diesel at the time, but he had paid a premium to even get that. His car cannot go above a few MPH without the engine on.

    I call this a con, other folks may call it good marketing, either way it is not honest. But it is at least getting people used to the idea that electricity is going to be involved and allowing the motor industry to upskill somewhat whilst we install several million more chargepoints….

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    As we all know, the early hybrids (now called mild hybrids or even self charging hybrids) use a much smaller engine so use less fuel. The tiny (relatively small) battery boosts the performance when needed.

    My colleague was (and still is) a fan - he boasted of his 55MPG from his new hybrid some years ago when a typical petrol engine would only do 40MPG. I got 60MPG from my dirty diesel at the time, but he had paid a premium to even get that. His car cannot go above a few MPH without the engine on.

    I call this a con, other folks may call it good marketing, either way it is not honest. But it is at least getting people used to the idea that electricity is going to be involved and allowing the motor industry to upskill somewhat whilst we install several million more chargepoints….

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