Reuben80 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:04 am
Why people are upset that you need petrol to charge?
Because you have to pollute the air with exhaust fumes from an internal combustion engine in order to charge. A BEV recharges from a home or public charge point, and the electricity from those charge points can be generated by clean and renewable methods such as solar and wind, or hydro electric in countries such as Norway. Hybrids are still air polluting, oil consuming vehicles. BEVs are potentially not.
Hybrids are just a way of reducing the pollution and fuel costs of internal combustion engines. It's a bit like semi-synthetic oil, which is much better than non-synthetic oil, because the synthetic oil that is added is so much bettter, but it's not as good as 100% synthetic oil. Taking a crude oil based oil, which is full of contaminates which are bad for your engine, and making it better by adding some synthetic oil to it, makes the oil perform better and keeps the engine cleaner, for a cost somewhere between non-synthetic and fully synthetic oil, but 100% fully synthetic, which has no contaminates to start with, is better still. In the case of a hybrid, you're reducing the pollution and oil based fuel usage by adding a clean method of propulsion, but it's not as good as just using the clean method only and totally avoiding the pollution.