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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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    Hi CliveS,
    The biggest advantage of plug-in hybrid cars: is in the range of kilometers, therefore the combination of an electric engine and a combustion engine results in a range of about 600 kilometers. In general, EV mode (electric vehicle mode) can be activated with the plug-in hybrid drive, after which the vehicle travels for distances of 30 to 50 kilometers electrically only and this saves on fuel consumption and of course on reducing pollutants and therefore this makes hybrid cars ideal for trips within the city. For comparison, the range of an electric car is shorter depending on the model, between 120 and 220 kilometers, so these values will continue to increase in the future.

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    Hi CliveS,
    The biggest advantage of plug-in hybrid cars: is in the range of kilometers, therefore the combination of an electric engine and a combustion engine results in a range of about 600 kilometers. In general, EV mode (electric vehicle mode) can be activated with the plug-in hybrid drive, after which the vehicle travels for distances of 30 to 50 kilometers electrically only and this saves on fuel consumption and of course on reducing pollutants and therefore this makes hybrid cars ideal for trips within the city. For comparison, the range of an electric car is shorter depending on the model, between 120 and 220 kilometers, so these values will continue to increase in the future.

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