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Electric Vehicles and Hybrids

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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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    Thank you for your replies but Andrew is correct when he states that small old cars with under 1,000 cc engines can be less polluting than almost all new fancy hybrids.

    The mayor of London has just announced ultra low emission zone will  be extended to inside the north and south circular roads but electric vehicles will be exempt.  Not sure of hybrids? 

    I hired a Fiat 500 Hybrid in France recently and was annoyed that there was no way of recharging the battery overnight and no way of turning off the engine in cities and just using the battery.  This is an outrageous omission and means that road-hogs can accelerate away from traffic light Ferrari style and let the engine recharge the battery at the next lights polluting the atmosphere terribly.  

    Car manufactures should be forced to recall all hybrids are fit them with a change over switch to battery only, as car makers are promoting hybrids as containing an environmentally friendly engine. 

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    Thank you for your replies but Andrew is correct when he states that small old cars with under 1,000 cc engines can be less polluting than almost all new fancy hybrids.

    The mayor of London has just announced ultra low emission zone will  be extended to inside the north and south circular roads but electric vehicles will be exempt.  Not sure of hybrids? 

    I hired a Fiat 500 Hybrid in France recently and was annoyed that there was no way of recharging the battery overnight and no way of turning off the engine in cities and just using the battery.  This is an outrageous omission and means that road-hogs can accelerate away from traffic light Ferrari style and let the engine recharge the battery at the next lights polluting the atmosphere terribly.  

    Car manufactures should be forced to recall all hybrids are fit them with a change over switch to battery only, as car makers are promoting hybrids as containing an environmentally friendly engine. 

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