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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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    I can only confirm for the Ford but it already does (all their PHEV's do). You do need plug in capability to do this. It has 4 modes.

    EV Auto : Lets the car decide when to use battery power when it is best (normally EV a default until teh battery starts to run low)

    EV Now : Forces the car to run EV unless the battery is flat

    EV Later : Runs the engine to preserve battery power (still gets excellant fuel economy for reasons I siad before)

    EV Charge : If you have used the battery up and want more battery range later you can ask for charge mode, which will decide the most fuel efficient charging mode and charge the battery up. Good if you start in a city, run down the motorway to another city.

    At the moment these modes are all switch selectable and its easy to do. 

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    I can only confirm for the Ford but it already does (all their PHEV's do). You do need plug in capability to do this. It has 4 modes.

    EV Auto : Lets the car decide when to use battery power when it is best (normally EV a default until teh battery starts to run low)

    EV Now : Forces the car to run EV unless the battery is flat

    EV Later : Runs the engine to preserve battery power (still gets excellant fuel economy for reasons I siad before)

    EV Charge : If you have used the battery up and want more battery range later you can ask for charge mode, which will decide the most fuel efficient charging mode and charge the battery up. Good if you start in a city, run down the motorway to another city.

    At the moment these modes are all switch selectable and its easy to do. 

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