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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it depends as there are many different implementations of hybrid cars.
Generally the most common you would find is that the car has a normal 12V battery that runs all computers, lights and anything else a regular car has and then there is a separate battery thats much larger and usually a higher voltage that is used to run the electric motors and in many models also runs the air conditioning and is used to start the combustion engine.
These larger batteries will typically be anywhere from 48V to 240V and the most commonly used battery chemistrys are NiMH and Li-NMC.
There are plug in hybrid variants of many hybrid vehicles which you can charge with a charge port like EVs but these usually also have a much larger battery capacity.
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