{"id":346796,"date":"2026-02-20T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/major-study-reveals-plug-in-hybrids-use-four-times-more-fuel-than-claimed\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:38:12","slug":"major-study-reveals-plug-in-hybrids-use-four-times-more-fuel-than-claimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/major-study-reveals-plug-in-hybrids-use-four-times-more-fuel-than-claimed\/","title":{"rendered":"Major study reveals plug-in hybrids use four times more fuel than claimed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/major-study-reveals-plug-in-hybrids-use-four-times-more-fuel-than-claimed.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The automakers around the world paint plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) as the perfect bridge to a cleaner future. These vehicles carry both a battery and a gasoline engine, promising the best of both worlds. But a huge new study reveals that this &#8220;bridge&#8221; might be built on a very shaky ground. Research from the Fraunhofer Institute shows that these cars are&hellip; <a href=https:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/major_study_reveals_plugin_hybrids_use_four_times_more_fuel_than_claimed-news-5629.php target='blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/major-study-reveals-plug-in-hybrids-use-four-times-more-fuel-than-claimed.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The automakers around the world paint plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) as the perfect bridge to a cleaner future. These vehicles carry both a battery and a gasoline engine, promising the best of both worlds. But a huge new study reveals that this &#8220;bridge&#8221; might be built on a very shaky ground. Research from the Fraunhofer Institute shows that these cars are&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/major-study-reveals-plug-in-hybrids-use-four-times-more-fuel-than-claimed\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":346797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arenaev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}