Will Plugin Hybrid technology will probably become the choice for Low or Zero Emission regulation?
Hybrid technology is a bridge towards pure electric. Electric engines are much more simple and cheaper than combustion engines, only batteries are very expensive, but battery price is decreasing and in the future the production cost of an electric car will be lower than combustion and hybrid cars (hybrid means combustion+electric=the most expensive), this means that producers have already decided to go for electric because is convenient, because emission regulations will be impossible to respect with combustion technology and because users are demanding cheaper fuel vehicles. Hybrid vehicles are produced to test the market and the technology (ie many smart electric drive have failures on the “electric” side, but the car can still go with the combustion engine), indeed the first toyota prius was expensive and ugly just to be not a best seller because the high production cost couldn’t allow decent gain on sells, but market request surprisingly was much more that production capability tha
