Electric cars

I thought the hybrid cars still need charging from an electric socket ? Presumably if you drive a distance using electricity and you run out of charge you switch to running on petrol. Are all electric cars hybrid?

My daughter has a hybrid electric/petrol car. On her three-quarter hour motorway drive to work the petrol engine is also charging up the battery, which is then ready to use when she is driving stop-start around town (or if the petrol is low). It has proved ecomonical to run and she is very pleased with it.

SIL has a TESLA which seems very swish - and that is the only noise it makes when he is driving it!
A warning though, he charges his on the drive overnight which is fine, but one of their friends whose charging point is in their garage had a house fire recently when the charging point apparently burst into flames.

The BiL has a hydrid petro and electric. It doesn’t need a charging station.

I wonder how many will be caught out in the middle of nowhere ? I wouldn't trust them.

Our neighbours have a PHEV, (Petrol Hybrid Electric Vehicle). and love it. They had a charging point installed on an outside wall, but I don't know how far they go in it, or how many charging points there are locally.

Bumped!

I don't have one, but have noticed the number of charging points in car parks is mushrooming.