9.But How Exactly Do Hybrid Cars Work? – Buy A Hybrid Car

It is a passenger, commuter vehicle, powered by a ‘hybrid’ engine. What that means is, an engine that combines two or more sources of power. In most cases, they will be gasoline and electricity.

There are two types of gasoline-electric hybrid cars:

(i)the parallel hybrid, and

(ii) the series hybrid.

Both use gasoline-electric hybrid technology, but in radically different ways.
Our scientists from Hybrid center online, quotes and summarized the differences as follows:

 In a parallel hybrid car, a gasoline engine and an electric motor work together to move the car forward,

 In a series hybrid, the gasoline engine directly powers an electric motor that either powers the vehicle, or charges batteries that will power the motor.