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posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 11 2017, @04:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the electric-jaguars,-land-rovers-and-volvos;-Oh-my! dept.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has pledged to stop building cars powered solely by petrol and diesel. The company hopes that every car built after 2020 will either be fully electric or a hybrid that makes use of both an electric motor and a traditional petrol-powered engine.

"Every new Jaguar Land Rover model line will be electrified from 2020," Jaguar Land Rover boss Ralf Speth said in a statement. "We will introduce a portfolio of electrified products across our model range, embracing fully electric, plug-in hybrid and mild hybrid vehicles."

The move comes just months after rival Volvo Cars confirmed that it would electrify its entire range of vehicles by 2019. Between 2019 and 2021, Volvo plans to launch five new electric vehicles, while every other car in the range will feature some form of hybrid engine. Honda has also promised that all of its new models from 2020 on will have an electrified variant.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:11AM (#566537)

    Hybrids can make a real, practical difference in stop-and-go driving, where the extra weight more than pays for itself, using the energy gained from regenerative braking to accelerate back up to speed. On the highway, it adds absolutely nothing but weight (though highway mileage is dominated by aerodynamic drag, not rolling drag, so the weight isn't as big a penalty as you might think) compared to a normal vehicle with the same size engine. (Of course, you can argue for comparing them, not on an equal-engine basis, but on e.g. equal 0-60 time; then the conventional vehicle needs a more powerful engine because it doesn't benefit from electric assist off the line, and the hybrid with its smaller engine would be a bit more fuel efficient at cruise. Not a big difference either way.)

    So if most of your driving is stop-and-go city traffic, it probably saves you money on gas (although it may or may not save you enough to pay for itself -- depends how much you drive), and it still works like normal (jerry cans and all) for long trips.

    In other words, it's not something you'd buy for camping trips, and occasionally use around town; it's something you'd buy for around town, and use for occasional camping trips.

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