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Hybrid Electric Vehicles start, refuel and handle like the gas-only Toyotas you already know and love—just with better mpg.

Even though they run on a combination of gas and battery-powered electric motor(s), they don’t use a plug to charge their battery. Instead, they recycle the kinetic energy captured from the vehicle’s braking motion to recharge on their own.

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles run just like hybrids, using a combination of fuel and battery-powered electric motor(s), but thanks to their larger battery pack, they can run farther on electric power alone.

When your Plug-in Hybrid EV’s battery uses up its charge, it carries on like a regular Hybrid EV, using a combination of gas and energy stored from the vehicle’s self-charging battery system to power it. When you’re ready, plug it in to recharge it and return to the efficiency of operating on all-electric power.

These pure Electric Vehicles replace gasoline and combustion engines with battery-powered electric motors, providing smooth and almost instantaneous torque.

They use the same self-charging technology of our Hybrid EVs to harness kinetic energy generated from the braking motion of the vehicle, but source the rest of their power when you plug them in and charge them up.

Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles combine stored hydrogen with oxygen from the outside air to generate their own electric charge to power the motor.

Refueling a Fuel Cell EV is similar to refueling its gas-powered counterparts by using a pump and a nozzle—just with hydrogen instead of gasoline. As for its emissions? Nothing but water from the tailpipe.