2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid And Plug-In Hybrid First Drive - Green Car Reports
What if you could fully restore your charge in a plug-in hybrid, on the fly, just by driving. It’s a feature that’s unparalleled in mass-market plug-in hybrids—that in the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid you can enter not the charge-sustaining mode that some models have, but a mode that actually regains a full charge. Through the charge-restoring mode, you can essentially bring the battery back to full, from around 15-percent capacity, where it pushes you our of EV mode and into hybrid mode, in just 30 to 40 minutes—albeit at lower fuel efficiency than in... That mode allows the hybrid system to run more with the gasoline engine, when it makes sense, for battery charging. It's fodder for some armchair calculations about when you could best use all-electric mode and when you’d be better off running in hybrid mode. And while all this is good fuel for debate (in your comments below), the central point here is that Hyundai has not only introduced a new Sonata Plug-In Hybrid, with a much larger 9. 8-kWh battery and class-leading 24-mile all-electric driving... Source: www.greencarreports.com
