The plug-in hybrid remains a strange automotive safety blanket. It tries to combine the virtues of both electric and internal-combustion propulsion, but, like those who?d wear both belt and suspenders, it?s compromised by a fundamental lack of certainty. By the standards of the genre, the new Kia Optima plug-in hybrid is good; given the low price of gasoline, though, it feels like the answer to a question that few actually ask. READ MORE ??
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