Hybrid Vs. Electric which is best?

Question

which will give you best bang for the buck. Hybrid cons, and pros. VS. Electric's Con and pros.including the price to install a batter charger in your home, and the cost of charging car/ electric bill.

Answer 1

Ill go for electric car the tesla roadster but it will cost you 400,000$ not for the masses

Answer 2

Electric has more benefits, but it also has more drawbacks. Hybrid has fewer benefits and fewer drawbacks. A Hybrid vehicle NEVER has to be charged and can get solid (according to the auto companies) fuel efficiency and you can travel a while before needing to fill up. The benefit of a hybrid is it still runs on an easily refillable (5 minutes) fuel (gasoline) and you are never dependent on electricity from your home. Electric cars are hands down the future, we can make them now and they can go hundreds of miles before needing to be recharged, and produce 100% zero emissions in that time. The issue is that they travel smaller distance; around 220 miles for the better models and then they can take up to 8 hours to recharge in a standard outlet. Phoenix Motorcars actually has it so that you can refit your outlet and charge at 10 minutes which is probably the future. The issue is the electricity itself, lets say your home is hit by a storm and you lose power for 2 days. You will not be able to charge the car to go to work, and your last charge will be all you have to last you. Another drawback is that you charge the car while you are sleeping, what if the power goes out for 3 hours while you are sleeping, you will wake to find the car not fully charged.

A drawback that both of the cars have is that the batteries are expensize (in the $5000-$10000 dollar range) and they can go bad after 100000 miles. This is not a HUGE issue for companies such as Tesla Motors who offers a warranty, but it is still something for the consumer to consider.

If you are going on a vacation, the hybrid is better because you will have to find a place to charge the electric, which is harder to do then you think.

The prices are actually lower then you might think, to fully charge and electric car will cost you just under $2 on a standard electric bill, compare that to $4 a gallon and electric is an easy winner. Refitting your house with an advanced charger will probably not be cheap, but is definately worth it if you have a time crunch and need the thing charged NOW!

-Pros and Cons-

-Electric Car

PROS

• No Emissions

• Cheaper Recharging Costs

• No dependence on shaky gas industy

• Silent drive

CONS

• Long recharge time

• High battery and charger prices

• Shorter travel distance

• Depends on energy in a

home which may be lost due to weather

-Hybrid

PROS

• Fast refuel time

• Larger range

• No recharge needed for batteries

CONS

• Depends on shaky gas industry

• Batteries are expensive• Gas burning emissions (smaller then a pickup, but not as little as many think)

Overall,I would go with the electric car if you live close to work and a hybrid if you live a couple of hours away.

Answer 3

I would go for a hybrid simply because you have a back up petrol motor.

I have yet to see an electric vehicle that can be charged in 5 minutes and has a long range.

Any way, people go on about electric cars being good for the environment but the electricity you charge them with is most likely generated at a coal or oil burning plant. Go figure.

Answer 4

That's a little tricky, because do you mean right now, in the near future, or more distant future?

Right now it's obviously hybrids because the technology has been around for a decade, whereas battery technology is just advancing to the point where we're starting to see some really nice electric cars.  Hybrids are also generally cheaper because they're mass produced, again because they've been around longer.

So right now hybrids have the advantage.  In a few years it will be fully electric cars.

In terms of fuel costs, electrics have the advantage.  They only cost about 2-3 cents per mile to recharge, whereas the Prius (currently the most efficient hybrid) costs 8 cents per mile with gas at $4/gallon.

You don't need to install any chargers for electrics - you can just plug them into any power outlet.  This will take several hours to recharge, and you can install rapid recharge stations that will recharge them in 10 minutes, but they're pretty expensive.

The benefit of hybrids is that they have a longer range.  Affordable highway speed EVs will mostly only be able to go 100 miles per charge in the near future, although there is one supposed to come out next year which claims to have a 250 mile range.

http://greenhome.huddler.com/wiki/electr...

One good option is to combine the two in a plug-in hybrid like the Aptera typ-1h or Chevy Volt.  That way you can use it as an electric car for ~40 miles, and then use it as a hybrid for like 500 more miles.  The benefit of that is it solves the range problem, but it also continues to rely on gasoline.

http://greenhome.huddler.com/products/ap...

Answer 5

it would depend on what your driving requirements are. if you do mainly short trips to the store, coffee shops etc, then the electric would be better. the cost of charging is minimal for the battery electric. as for the hybrid, only marginally better than a standard vehicle. which ever way you go, research the type of vehicle you are interested in. I converted a vehicle to electric. I use it every day for work, the Zero Emissions Vehicle is the way to go if you really care about the enviroment. Happy Motoring.

Answer 6

Contrary to popular belief, it is more environmentally concious to buy a used car that gets good gas mileage than a hybrid or electric car since the emmissions that come from the plants where these cars are made are far more than you would release in a regular car over the course of three to four years.

Answer 7

im pretty sure hybrid will cost u a bit more......

but i would go for a hybrid as opposed to an elec...... because an electric car is usualy small and has very less speed but a hybrid is comparitivly faster and bigger... and a hybrid ould be better if u have loads of signallights and trafic and stuff...

Answer 8

The perfect car would be a electric car that has a 10kW or 20 kW gas or diesel generator.  When the battery gets low the generator kicks on and powers the electric motors and any extra juice would charge the battery.  It would have a 220 volt charger for home charging of 2 to 4 hours and could also be used as a generator to power the house if there was a power outage by pushing power back out to the 220 outlet to the house.

Answer 9

I would go for the hybrid. It used both gas and electricity and fuel. You only use fuel ir you are running above 45 mpg.