What Are the Different Types of Hybrid Cars?

When someone says, “I own a hybrid,” we often imagine a Toyota Prius . . . or maybe its RAV4 Hybrid sibling. There’s a reason for that: Toyota has now sold the vast majority of the more than 25 million gasoline-electric hybrids on the world’s roads, most of which use its classic two-motor power-split parallel-hybrid system.

But what does that string of words actually mean? The most useful way to distinguish among hybrid-electric systems is to ask whether the hybrid system can…

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