[Auto] Should electric mode be mandatory for plug-in hybrids in low-emission areas?

[[M]anuel]

Someday this melon will have to be opened. In low-emission areas, where plug-in hybrid cars can always enter, driving in 100% electric mode will become mandatory. However, this limitation is easier to implement with technology.

Someday, even hybrid cars will be frowned upon in some European cities for emitting exhaust gases in low-emission areas, even though they pollute less than normal. After all, they still have heat engines, although ideally they shouldn't be used in po[CENSORED]ted areas to improve air quality.

Plug-in hybrid cars are ideally designed to do most of the normal mileage without polluting, using only the energy stored in their batteries. For this they have more capacity than a conventional hybrid, which at most a couple of kilometers with the gasoline or diesel engine turned off.

However, when the level of the batteries drops, they go on to function like normal hybrids, until enough energy is recovered to get back to running miles without emissions, or until the next charge. The driver can voluntarily choose hybrid mode, as electric is the default mode.

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