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Everyone’s heard of the Toyota Prius, Honda’s Insight, you know, the conventional hybrid vehicles (people spoke of them with hushed awe only a few years ago, and now they are “conventional”). These conventional hybrids, have a gasoline engine for power, and an electric motor to assist at low speeds. The electric motor obtains its power from an onboard gasoline-fired generator. Now there is another way to get power to the batteries that drive the electric motor – why not just plug the car in like with an EV? Now there’s an idea! Well, that’s what a plugin hybrid is – you put in two kinds of energy: gasoline and electrical. The utility power you get is generated on much better equipment with much lower rates of wastage than you could possibly put in a car.