I don’t understand why a car would have both if they both provide rotational energy, unless they just stack? I don’t know what’s going on.

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    1 year ago

    Most cars only have an internal combustion engine. People just refer to it interchangably as an engine and a motor.

    There’s a small number of cars that have both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, called hybrids. They try to take advantage of the best of both worlds, giving the range of the ICE and the fuel economy of the electric motor.

    Some cars don’t have an engine and only have an electric motor inside.