There are quite a few similarities between these two types of vehicles and it starts with the electrification that has taken place inside both automobiles.
Hybrid electric vehicles still derive a large amount of their power from the combustion engine that is located within the vehicle, but enough power is drawn from the electric motor that this combustion engine does not have to be anywhere near as powerful as the average one that you would see within one of the conventional automobiles of the day.
These two types of automobiles both derive at least half of their power from these electric motors and because of that these motors are both charged through the regenerative braking system that is installed in most of these vehicles.
Another thing that these two types of vehicles have in common is the fact that they can be recharged by being plugged in. This particular point requires a caveat because this is not true for all hybrid electric vehicles. There are significant numbers of hybrids that do not recharge through any mechanism other than regenerative braking and for that reason they are not as dependant on their electrical framework as they are on the internal combustion engine that still forms the majority of their power source.
However, new hybrids that have been released within the past few years typically come with plugs that can be used to recharge the vehicles, allowing them to recharge their power cells and continually operate at a peak amount of efficiency. In fact, these “plug in hybrids” are the wave of the future in terms of hybrid technology and unlike the previous generation of hybrid electric vehicles, these ones can be run far more from their electrical half than they would be from their combustion half. In this way, modern plug in hybrids are a lot more like the fully electric vehicles that everyone knows and loves.