A Closer Look into Hybrids
With all the recent buzz around Hybrid cars, you may be left with some questions. Let's dig into these Hybrid vehicles a little more and hopefully answer some questions! Electric Vehicles (EV) use a battery instead of a gas tank and use an electric motor instead of your typical combustion engine. These types of vehicles produce no tailpipe emissions. Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHEV) are a combination of a gas engine and electric. They have a battery, electric motor as well as a gas tank. So they use both fuel and electricity to get around. PHEVs produce tailpipe emissions only when [...]