Recently I saw some strange ideas about hybrids and EVs. Most surrounded the line of EVs in Vermont trying to charge after the eclipse. The onslaught of eclipse viewers from nearby and more populated states, overwelmed Vermont’s fledgling EV charging infrastructure and the EV drivers must have expected city sized EV charging stations in the rural state of Vermont.
One lady on Facebook stated that the EVs had a design flaw because they didn’t have an gasoline engine like a hybrid. Another said “Isn’t that a design flaw? Shouldn’t the car charge itself while you are driving it? I have a hybrid that charges while I’m driving. I get to drive all over town on electric power.”
Obviously, some people had trouble with high school physics classes or simply don’t understand how friction and loss energy due to heat reduces effeciency and makes pertutual machines impossible.
Hybrids are not electric cars
Hybrids run on gas. Sure the electric motor components reduce the usage of gasoline by 25-35 percent but hybrid cars still run on gasoline.
Hybrids are the future
Hybrids represent an increase in fuel economy but are certainly not the future. The future is cars not dependent on fossil fuels. Hybrids represent a small step towards less combustion of climate change causing fossil fuel but they are not the future.
Hybrids still contain a complex gasoline engine which requires a lot of maintainance and lost of power due to heat and friction.
Compared to an all electric car with no emmissions and a simplier system with less maintainance, EVs are the future even if some people will need hybrids as a baby step towards an all electric future.