10 Up-and-Coming Hybrids for 2018

Automakers will feature new plug-ins, full hybrids, mild hybrids and a growing array of start-stop micro-hybrids.

Charles Murray

August 25, 2017

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10 Up-and-Coming Hybrids for 2018
These days, the auto industry wants consumers to think of electrification as just another powertrain option. There’s the V-8, V-6, inline-four, and the hybrid. The idea is to gently acclimate the consumer to the changes that are destined to occur over the next decade.When we drill down, however, we find that hybridization is more than a Prius-style parallel powertrain. Today, there are micro-hybrids, mild hybrids, full hybrids (like the Prius), and plug-in hybrids (like the Chevy Volt). Most automakers are working on all four of those categories.Here, we offer a peek at some of the more notable hybrids. A few will be new for the coming year; a few others will continue to build on existing momentum. From micro- and mild hybrids to full hybrids and plug-ins, check out these 10 autos and see what to look for in 2018. 

 Senior technical editor Chuck Murray has been writing about technology for 33 years. He joined Design News in 1987, and has covered electronics, automation, fluid power, and auto.

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About the Author

Charles Murray

Charles Murray

Charles Murray is a former Design News editor and author of the book, Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car, published by Purdue University Press. He previously served as a DN editor from 1987 to 2000, then returned to the magazine as a senior editor in 2005. A former editor with Semiconductor International and later with EE Times, he has followed the auto industry’s adoption of electric vehicle technology since 1988 and has written extensively about embedded processing and medical electronics. He was a winner of the Jesse H. Neal Award for his story, “The Making of a Medical Miracle,” about implantable defibrillators. He is also the author of the book, The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1997. Murray’s electronics coverage has frequently appeared in the Chicago Tribune and in Popular Science. He holds a BS in engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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