how do hybrid cars work?
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Basically, instead of one big gas engine, there’s an electric motor and a smaller gas engine. Electric motors are more efficient at low speed than gas engines, and they can turn into generators when you’re slowing down instead of just turning that into waste heat. The point is to use the different motors when you’re at their most efficient speed so you’re wasting as little energy as possible. You can even turn the gas engine off completely when you’re stopped in traffic and save even more fuel.
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