It is a passenger, commuter vehicle, powered by a ‘hybrid’ engine.
What that means is, an engine that combines two or more sources of power. In most cases, they will be gasoline and electricity.
There are two types of gasoline-electric hybrid cars:
(i) the parallel hybrid, and
(ii) the series hybrid.
Both use gasoline-electric hybrid technology, but in radically different ways.
Our scientists from Hybrid center online, quotes and summarized the differences as follows:
- In a parallel hybrid car, a gasoline engine and an electric motor work together to move the car forward,
- In a series hybrid, the gasoline engine directly powers an
electric motor that either powers the vehicle, or charges
batteries that will power the motor.