03-09-2022, 04:09 AM
The schooling kind of depends on what you want to be schooled on… Volts, like Honda Clarity, Prius Prime, and Hyundai Ioniq (among others) are not all built the same. Volt and Clarity both run on electricity. When the battery runs out, the engine engages to power a generator that powers the motors that drive their wheels. Prius and Ioniq run a gas engine to drive the wheels once the batteries are depleted. Different systems. There is some gas engine drive for both Volt and Clarity, but it's limited to fairly high speeds because of the way their transmissions work. Volt and Clarity have larger batteries and bigger motors. So they feel more like a BEV for acceleration, though the other cars aren't that far behind. All of the them will save you gasoline, but the Volt and Clarity (if you can find them anywhere) will probably save you more because their EV range is greater, and the cost to recharge the batteries in most areas is still manageable. Good luck - not the greatest time in recent history to be in the market for any kind of vehicle.