Hybrid VS Plug In Hybrid | Which One Is Really Better To Buy?
Hybrid VS Plug In Hybrid | Which One Is Really Better To Buy?
Hybrid VS Plug In Hybrid. Which one is really better to buy? We compare and explain the difference between a hybrid vs plug in hybrid car. We also explain whether it is better to buy a hybrid car or a plug in hybrid car. If you are deciding between a hybrid and plug in hybrid car, make sure to watch this video.
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With the poor quality ethanol laced fuel today, are there any concerns about old gas in plug in hybrids if they rarely use the gas engine for daily driving?
HYBRID is best
PHEV’s have much higher resale value??? Uhh I don’t think so. The PHEV battery is ridiculously expansive and as time goes by the more worthless that PHEV gets. At around 10 years that PHEV is worth ZERO dollars because nobody will take the chance of having to replace a $20k battery. Resale of PHEv’s are way higher than Gas and hybrids.
I’m buying a Hybrid but unsure if it will be plug in or not. Thanks for the explanation.
You might save on gas but after four or five years which car is going to sell for more? The one with a depleted battery or the one with no battery?
we have been driving on some long trips and the toyota hybrid is wonderful 40-44 and no stopping
Hybrid is next car for me
Just give me a V8..thanks
I drought rav4 plug in past six moth I spent 120 dollar for gas … I use to go work every day 50over all.. I use to go long in weekends so I use gas it’s really money save packing ( Note : 90 dollar gas still in fuel tank)
it’s not going to blow up like a pure ev
😂I like plug in hybrid
Ford is terrible drives bad unless you pay bank💰 for higher end models
Why do pod casters need to talk so much. Could have presented all the info in about three minutes.
That’s not so simple, you are NOT going to really save money with PHEV and EV. ICE cars are still in very high demand, some of them much more than EV or PHEV (just try to buy a BMW X1 with internal combustion engine). On the other hand, there’s lot’s of EV models with no waiting list. Eletricity cost are also rising up, in some countries more than fossil fuel. You can see also plenty of videos on YouTube comparing the cost of roundtrips with te same vehicle model, in three versions, EV, PHEV and Hybrid. And guess what? The EV is ALWAYS the more expensive, specially in the normal usefull conditions we expect from a family car. Considering that nowadays you still pay more for an EV, and if you plan to stay with the same car for a long period it might be needed to replace the battery, that would be a nightmare, and you can be a situation that would be more cheap to send the car to the slaughter. By the way, aftermarket parts, speccially big capacities lithium ion batteries, are never the best idea. You know way? Just replace your iPhone battery for a aftermarket battery and see what happens. And last but not least, see the video below to better understand what I’m saying.
https://youtu.be/HKBuQ_oGTTk?feature=shared
Electric makes no sense. Most people live in rooming houses in Canada now because Trudeau ruined the economy. They don’t have access to a plug. But Trudeau is an elitist and they make the rules without public consultation.
Thanks, after perusing much information and having some experience with vehicles, the information and discussion here is spot on. The basic point about how its a more individual-specific calculation about these cars is very important, and also noting that the car and its features are designed to educate drivers on efficiency and being efficient while operating the vehicle. With the plug ins, its not just a matter of a simple mile range, its that the hybrid battery can be managed better and even over the all-EV range the main hybrid battery may give you more efficiency and more power. These cars are designed for efficiency, also in terms of weight and size of batteries etc. It seems like these important considerations, and how impressive some of these cars are, is not something our US energy companies love. Its amazing to see the size of Canadian incentives, and in northern US many Canadians were driving down to the US in EVs this past summer. Great job, thanks again.
Rav 4 Prime cost around 66k here in Canada, I can get a top if the line suv for 45k. No way am I going to make up that 20k in gas savings over 4-6 years of owning the car. It’s still not worth it, and full EV is just crazy.
What is the annual battery replacement cost and is this cost added while calculating the saving in fuel cost?
So, Plug-In Hybrids won’t get auto recharge d while driving..
Excellent video … I knew absolutely nothing about electric cars and this cleared up things about the differences between various options. As I live in Canada where the temperature often goes below 0° C, I have always ignored all electric vehicles because we all know what happens to batteries in cold weather.
What is the point of a phev since the components are essentially the same as a hybrid??? Isn’t a hybrid better since you have unlimited battery use while phev the battery gets depleted. Why bother with a phev??
You missed the ULTIMATE facotr in all this…The overall life of what you can get out of the car before needing to do major work on it. Which one will last over 10 years, or 300K miles., etc.
I’m in Canada. Looking at a RAV4. The hybrid costs approx $2500 more. Driving 20000km per year saves $500/yr in gas. I keep vehicles a long time. So if I drive it 10 years I will have saved $5000 in gas. At that time the vehicle will have 200,000km and may need the hybrid battery replaced. The cost is approx $5000CDN. So, in 10 years of driving it would cost $7500 to save $5000.
Additional bonus in owning a plug-in is having the ability to get FREE miles! Airports, Park n’ Rides and even my work buildinga parking garage I am able to charge at no cost!
50% better of 30mpg is 45mpg not 40mpg
11 min video could have been done in 3 mins tops. Good info tho
There is no way in hell everyone should switch to full EV.. not even close. That’s one of the most intellectually dishonest or stupidly near-sighted arguments of modern times. Gas could be better and hybrid tech is amazing but full EV for the wrong reasons is just so dumb.
Hy bro. Thanks for the descriptive video. Simple and clear. I drive around 150 – 200 miles to different locations everyday & don’t have an option to plug-in/charge consistently. What would be the best option?
At this point, Hybrid.
Plug ins require a socket. You are screwed when trekking anywhere away from technological areas
A LOT OF TALK and no conclusions whatsoever. A click bait video.
40mpg on a hybrid is atrocious especially on a 1.3 liter
fullhybrid is much better and make more sense. you dont need any infrastructure or extra cables….just fill up like normal
EV is the best.
I am thinking of getting a Toyota Yaris hybrid for my wife to basically for time driving. Hope this will be better than the petrol version.
Its NOT the people who are not ready to make a transition, its the cost, the loss of contro, the distance, AND THE FACT THAT WEATHER is NOT a constant!, And the fact that there IS NO INFRASTRUCTURE FOR IT outside of a few metro cities in the WARM BELT. Also the fact that after a certain weight difference over a passenger car’s stats, a EV makes stupid sense.
I owned a hybrid put 70,000 miles loved it now I have a electric and I don’t like it because I’m scare off going long distance I’m glad is just 12 month lease 8 more payments and I’m done going back to hybrid
Great video, Plug in is the best for my situation but the amount that is being asked for used Prius is more than new one, Doesn’t make sense. Put my name down for a new one and keep cheap gas car in the meantime. Told Toyota dealer that’s not right He said well you get it now instead of waiting. Geez Toyota not cool, you’re behaving like Chrysler with the Hellcats, Gouging leaves a bad taste in consumers mouth.
Hybrid car recharge battery wile driving! Does Plug-in do the same or not? That is main point you have to explain!!!
hybrid cause alot of phev owner sometime forget to charge and in long trips the phev just revert back to big and heavy hev so your not gonna get much benefit you will just have a heavy hev ice engine are relativly quite efficient at highway and constant speed its only during acleration and low speed city driving that burns fuel hev help those issues by using regenerative braking and the ice engine to run at its most economical pace to charge up battary and use the ev motor to help out the ice engine during low speed urban driving significantly increasing the fuel economy of a typical ice car which in itself is already quite cheap relativly my mazda for example is extreamly efficent at highway speeds but the fuel economy drops significantly at urban stop and go traffic while my friends hev corrola cross is not more effcient then my mazda 3 at all but in the city its almost 30 percent more efficient.
Hybrid.
The answer is neither. Hybrid is more parts, more space, more weight, more failure points, and less performance. Hybrid made sense in 2015, today they make little sense and by 2025 they will make no sense at all. There’s a reason Rivian, Nio, Lucid, Tesla don’t make hybrids. No future in old tech. Compare a Tesla Model 3 under $33k (after rebate) to a hybrid… like a Ferrari to a Nissan Versa.
great video very well presented.
Plug In are not good in cold weather, electric driving range is reduced by 50% in winters.
With the way vehicle prices are going the average Joe isn’t going to be able to afford either.
A hybrid doesn’t rely on the supply of electricity. If everyone had an EV, more power plants would have to be built and more copper and other metals would have to be mined. INCREASING GREENHOUSE GASSES!
Another video mentioned one disadvantage of the plug being that once you run out of electric power and until you power up again your car will have to drag along the heavy battery as a deadweight, reducing the MPG considerably.
… if you can charge at home or work then that will save you money probably.. otherwise, hybrid is probably the best deal since you might only have to buy gas every week or two….
Answer: IT DEPENDS. Thanks we reaally could never think about that and that’s why we spent time to watch this video.
Also, as a car review channel, don’t you have more car shoots to put in a video that you loop the same things over and over?
to understand, so Plug in hybrid will load from gas engine (as standard hybrid?)