This eliminates the need for a transmission, making e-Power vehicles feel more like full electric cars to drive. Torque and power are available from a standstill, and if there is sufficient energy in the battery, the petrol engine remains blissfully silent. This allows short periods of EV-only propulsion.
Hybrid systems are intended to save fuel, while acting inadvertently as a step between ICE vehicles and full electric cars. In other words, buyers not yet ready to make that leap, can still get that EV feeling.
The result is a small SUV that handles like a regular vehicle, yet feels like an electric vehicle. While not zero emissions, an e-Power Nissan is able to refuel at a regular petrol station, eliminating the range anxiety common with full EV owners.
To sum up
All hybrids have both an ICE and electric motor, but most also have a transmission, and the ICE drives the wheels under certain circumstances. The transmission is usually a CVT, making the drive experience is sub-par. The strange elastic feel that CVT automatics bring, is something many drivers dislike, and some even loathe.
Anyone that has experienced the immediacy of a pure electric drivetrain knows how addictive that feeling can be. Although e-Power vehicles don't have quite that level of power and torque, there is still a noticeable sense of urgency.
Look for our review of the Nissan Qashqai e-Power soon.
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