Hybrid vehicle (disambiguation)
A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle which uses a mixture of power or fuel sources.
Hybrid vehicle may also refer to:
- A high-performance European-designed and built sports or touring car with a powerful American V8 engine, typically from the 1950s to 1970s.
- Hybrid electric vehicle, increasingly common automobiles which employ both a traditional internal combustion engine and an electric battery motor/generator to provide motive force and energy recovery.
- Mild hybrid
- Full hybrid
- Plug-in hybrid, an electric hybrid vehicle that can be plugged into a power grid to recharge its battery.
- Hydraulic hybrid, a hybrid vehicle which employs both a traditional internal combustion engine and a hydraulic motor/pump to provide motive force and energy recovery. Currently developed for big trucks/buses that start/stop often.
- Dual-mode vehicle, a hybrid vehicle which uses power from two sources of the same type
- Flexible-fuel vehicle, a hybrid vehicle which can use more than one type of liquid fuel for its internal combustion engine (commonly gasoline/LPG or gasoline/alcohol or gasoline/ethanol) The military has used gasoline/diesel/JP5 combos.
- Motorized bicycle, a bicycle powered by human and another power source such as liquid fuels or electricity
- Hybrid train, a locomotive with more than one power source
- Hybrid velomobile, an enclosed human-powered vehicle with an auxiliary (usually electric) motor
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