The programme is expected to prevent up to 9.2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions and will help customers with the upfront cost of switching to low emission vehicles such as hybrids. High CO2 emission vehicles will be charged a fee. From which time the Clean Car programme will expand to offer a range of rebates for imported new and used low CO2 emission vehicles. Another sweetener is the Clean Car programme rebates that will be coming into force for low emission vehicles first registered from 1 April 2022, making hybrid models a more economical choice.Ĭurrently, hybrids are not eligible, but they will be introduced as part of the scheme from 1 April 2022. Hybrids are also becoming ever more enticing for buyers as we see fuel prices soar to three dollars a litre. Used hybrids are plentiful in New Zealand, with many ex-fleet models recently becoming available and expected to pop up in used car dealerships in the coming years. Some Members have expressed that they feel more confident with a shuffle toward electrification by starting with a used hybrid model but want our advice on what options are available under $20k. Recently we have been hearing from Members who considering buying a used hybrid due to either their concerns about the increase in fuel costs and or wanting to do their bit to reduce their carbon footprint but are on the fence about the switch to a pure battery electric vehicle (BEV). The bestselling used import in 2021 was a hybrid - the humble Toyota Aqua. Used hybrids have been getting a lot more attention recently. Smart Charge – Intelligent Battery Charger.In a few PHEVs even just accelerating too hard, point blank, will cause the engine to come on - though this isn't the norm and you'll sometimes see that "accusation" thrown at cars for which its untrue. There are also various maintenance modes the car will follow for you that will occasionally run the engine if it's not been run recently so it's not just sitting there still all the time losing lubrication. In my own car, on a very cold day if the batteries have been really cold soaked, it be hard for the car to get enough power out of the batteries, so if you press the accelerator too hard in those conditions the engine will come on for extra boost. Towards the other, the Volt can heat the cabin and has enough range that you can often do so, but cold weather will sometimes prompt the engine to come on anyway. But for example at one end of the spectrum, the Niro PHEV has no means of heating the cabin except by engine heat. One that I think is pretty much universal in PHEVs is cold weather, though this varies by car. I said there's some fine print on the EV-only mode, which is that there are some usually-narrow exceptions where the car will come out of electric-only mode and start the engine despite that mode. The Volt and maybe others have a fourth that the Volt calls mountain mode, where if the battery is at a really low state of charge then the engine will actually increase the state of charge a bit. You might still see it fluctuate between a few percent as it goes through the song and dance described in the previous paragraph. The third is sometimes called hold mode, mine calls it "EV later" this tells the car to maintain the current state of charge and basically run entirely from gas. The second mode is electric-only mode (what my car calls "EV now" mode), where it will run entirely from the battery until the battery is depleted, with some fine print below. I can't really characterize that, I don't use it. The first is just an automatic mode where the car does whatever it does. It's pretty typical for there to be three or four modes you can run the car in, choosing between them. But sometimes in city driving the engine will just plain shut off and the car will be driven entirely from the battery for a short distance.Īs for electric mode, yes, that's present in almost all PHEVs, with a couple caveats I'll get to in a sec. If that means the engine is putting out more power than can be effectively used by the wheels because of torque limitations (I think I'm getting that explanation right, but not positive) then it will direct some of that energy into recharging the battery. Effectively, if a hybrid is running the engine, it's doing it it a great power band for the engine. However, I suspect they mostly all (other than mild hybrids perhaps) do something that's trying to accomplish the same aims but generalized. You're saying the engine's running for steady state driving but for getting up to speed from starts it should use the electric motor? I'll get to the first thing in a sec, but I'm not sure what the "another mode" you mean is. Can you change mode to make it full electric for those 25 miles and another mode which just starts the vehicle rolling and takes the pressure off the inefficient combustion?
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