How do hybrid cars work?

Question

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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Answer 1

>are the car batteries the same as non-hybrid cars?

By “non-hybrid” do you mean gas cars or electric cars?

All cars (including electric cars) have a standard 12V car battery. Electrics and hybrids also have an additional high voltage battery that powers the electric motors. Though it’s significantly smaller in hybrids.

>if it’s lithium batteries, why are there no charging ports like ev vehicles?

Plenty of hybrids do have charging ports. They’re called “plug-in hybrid” vehicles. These still don’t have batteries as large as a pure electric car, but large enough that you could make short trips on purely electric power.

Non-plugin hybrids don’t have one simply because it’s cheaper and the battery is usually too small for it to make much difference, so it’s not worth the expense to include charging ports and charging circuits.