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This means the fuel efficiency of plug-in hybrids can change quite a bit: if a plug-in hybrid can drive only on battery power most of the time, it can have very good fuel efficiency.

However, the battery only ranges of plug-in hybrids are much shorter than the ranges of electric vehicles. This also means plug-in hybrids can have much better fuel economy than conventional vehicles and regular hybrids. This is because electric motors are far more energy efficient than ICEs. Some plug-in hybrids can drive for almost 100 kilometres (km) using their electric motors before their ICEs need to turn on.Ī prior snapshot showed how electric vehicles have much better fuel economy than vehicles with internal-combustion engines (conventional vehicles) and even regular hybrids. The difference between plug-in hybrids and regular hybrids is that the batteries in plug-in hybrids are much larger and can also be charged by plugging the vehicle into electrical outlets, similar to electric vehicles. Both plug-in hybrids and regular hybrids recharge their batteries while the car is driving, using regenerative braking Footnote1 and power generated by the ICE.

Plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles (plug-in hybrids) are like regular hybrid-electric vehicles (regular hybrids): they have an internal-combustion engine (ICE) and one or more electric motors powered by a battery. Please send comments, questions, or suggestions for Market Snapshot topics to date: