Four years after Ford bravely electrified its best-selling vehicle, the F-150 Lightning pickup, it seemed ready to drop the model owing to slowing demand. Now, it turns out the company's got other plans. It's reengineering the flagship truck for 2026 as an extended range EV (EREV), with a gas…
I feel this article is more informative than the last article I posted. Credit to noride@lemmy.zip for the link.
The difference is in a hybrid the combustion engine directly drives the wheels mechanically at least some of the time.
EREV is an EV with a generator. The combustion engine can only generate electricity, which can be used to drive the wheels.
Chevy volt = hybrid BMW I3 = EREV (when configured with extender) Fiskar karma = EREV Toyota Prius = hybrid
oh that makes sense! cool!
the Chevy Volt is an EREV also, the generator doesn’t drive the wheels
The generator definitely can drive the wheels directly. It only happens in very specific situations, but the functionality is there.
The Chevy Volt is definitely a hybrid and not an EREV.