are the car batteries the same as non-hybrid cars? if it’s lithium batteries, why are there no charging ports like ev vehicles?
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There are 2 types of hybrid. Series, and parallel. In a series hybrid, the wheels are only driven by the electric motors. The gas engine has no mechanical connection to the wheels. It only exists to act as a generator and charge the battery. These are usually able to be plugged into the wall so in theory, if your daily drive was short enough, you could never use the gas engine. In a parallel hybrid, both the gas and electric motor(s) drive the wheels. This can be done in a couple of ways. The electric motor could be mounted on the output shaft of the engine/transmission, or the gas engine could drive one set of wheels, usually the rear, and the electric motor(s) could drive the front wheels giving a psudo all wheel drive effect. Though, it’s worth noting that the psudo all wheel drive thing is really only done on preformance cars as far as I’m aware. Generally speaking, a parallel hybrid will have a much smaller battery and thus smaller range then a series hybrid. In my opinion, a series hybrid is the perfect every day car, at least in the present day. You can get 90% of the benefit of a full ev, while not having the range anxiety and added charge time for longer trips.
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