The car industry’s effort to decarbonise revolves around replacing petrol with batteries. The big batteries required to run fully electric vehicles make them far more expensive than petrol cars. Plug-in hybrids, by contrast, run on much smaller batteries: they typically have a 20-kilowatt-hour unit, around a third of the size of those in BEVs. Although hybrids can typically travel only …
Plug-in hybrids, which have both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, are increasingly seen as the best of both worlds. Global PHEV sales grew 50% year over year in the first five months of 2024, according to Bernstein—far better than the 9% pace for pure electric vehicles. J.P. Morgan says they could account for 60% of new-energy vehicle …
Carbon dioxide emissions from the latest plug-in hybrid vehicles are up three times higher than advertised when their batteries have been fully charged, a green transport think tank has warned. Not as green as they say: A new report claims that plug-in hybrid cars 'pollute significantly more than advertised' and should be banned from sale with petrols and diesels in …
