A recent Harris poll found that 67 percent of car buyers don’t know the difference between a traditional hybrid and a plug-in hybrid car.
Simply stated, a hybrid car has both an internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric motor running on a battery, while a plug-in is much more similar to a fully electric car.
These electric vehicles also differ in how their batteries are recharged. Traditional hybrids charge while the vehicle is running on engine power while storing and using kinetic energy created by both braking and “coasting.” A plug-in hybrid’s battery or batteries are charged by doing exactly what the name suggests – plugging it into the national grid.
Read the article at the New York Daily News.