Unless you’re a devout petrolhead, the car world can be one filled with confusing terminology.
From acronyms like VED (Vehicle Excise Duty, which is essentially car tax) to idioms such as referring to unreliable motors as ‘lemons’, there’s enough jargon to put your head into a spin.
And the recent generation of green cars is only adding to the already diverse automotive vocabulary.
While the term electric vehicle – or EV – is self explanatory, ‘hybrid’ isn’t quite as straight