It's honestly no surprise that people are buying plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and then not charging them. Heck, they work as a gas car that saves fuel, so you don't actually need to ...

And it led to anecdotes like one from auto writer Adam Tonge, who noted his neighbors bought a 4xe purely for its low lease cost and because they liked the color—and had no idea it plugged in.

VERIFY has received many questions about these plug-in devices marketed under names ... page complain about seeing no difference in electricity bills, even after a year of using the product.

In other cases, buyers may not even know their new car has a plug. Every auto analyst and reporter has at least one story of a friend, relation, neighbor, or coworker who bought a PHEV and had no ...

This can allow PHEV owners to drive only on electric power for a short distance. No. Plug-in hybrids can be charged to run on mostly electric power usually for the first 25 to 50 miles before they ...

See, the Prime variant of the Prius is a plug-in hybrid vehicle ... If you wind your mind backwards to 2011, there was almost no EV infrastructure whatsoever. Tesla hadn’t even started building ...

That situation could change next year if a new "universal Plug and Charge" initiative from SAE International, backed by a number of EV carmakers and chargers, moves ahead and gains ground.

Over the past several months, VERIFY has received many questions about plug-in devices that claim to ... page complain about seeing no difference in electricity bills, even after a year of using ...