Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have a battery, electric drive motor and an internal combustion engine. They can be driven using the ICE, the electric drive motor, or a combination of the two. They can be recharged from an external power source. Typical PHEVs have a pure-electric range of 20 to 50 miles. Once the battery is discharged, journeys continue in hybrid mode, meaning that there is no range limit. Range-extended electric vehicles (E-REVs) are a type of PHEV but they have an internal combustion engine and generator on board to recharge the battery when it is discharged. An example was the early BMW i3 but these are not now available as new.
PHEV examples include the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, BMW 330e and Volkswagen Golf GTE.