Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

I've shown photographs previously of cars using the Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle scheme charging point at Salford Quays. There's two charging points there and on rare occasions I've seen a vehicle using one, but recently for the first time I walked past when there were two cars using the facility at the same time.

This is the all-electric Nissan Leaf, introduced in 2010 which uses either a 24 kWh or 30 kWh battery  which give a range of 84 or 107 miles respectively.

This car is the hybrid Volkswagen Golf GTE which has a 1.4 litre petrol engine and a 75 kW electric motor. The car was introduced in 2014 and in all-electric mode has a range of 31 miles.

Honda Insight

There didn't seem to be anything unusual about this car when I was walking past it in a car park in Hyde recently, until I saw the word 'Hybrid' on the back.

It's a Honda Insight, and the '61' in the registration number shows it to have been first licenced between 1 Sept 2011 and 29 Feb 2012.

It's a 5 passenger 5 door Second Generation car with a 1.3 litre petrol engine as opposed to the 2 passenger 3 door First Generation car which had a 1 litre engine. This Wikipedia article tells you about the car.