When choosing between a fully electric car or a hybrid car, it’s certainly wiser to prioritize the second option. In urban conditions, you can run on electric power, and away from charging stations that are working and don’t “break down” due to cell signal suppression, you can always rely on good old gasoline and it will get you where you need to go.
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However, in Russia, against the background of well-known events, which of course led not to a literal crisis but to real inconveniences on the domestic fuel market, the opposite logic now emerges. Buy a hybrid just so that if something happens, they can get home without gas.
how famous In July this year, Gazprombank Car Rental Company sold more than 14,000 hybrid vehicles in Russia, an increase of 112% over the same period last year.
As you know, whether this is a reasonable solution is highly debatable. Owners of diesel passenger cars are in a better position at this stage: the situation with Russian diesel is much better than with gasoline, due to the peculiarities of domestic refining and the market – the country produces more gasoline, while the share of diesel passenger cars is relatively small. As a result, gas stations have looser restrictions on diesel – and those restrictions are still in place.