Nx300H

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Just to confuse matters ..

The McLaren P1 ...... has a 727 BHP petrol engine and a 176bhp electrical engine. McLaren advertise this car as having 903BHP (http://media.mclarenautomotive.com/model/7/EN/doc/49/)

916PS (903 hp) generated by 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 petrol engine coupled to an electric motor gives tremendous power and instant throttle response with an electronically limited top speed of 350 km/h (217 mph)

Therefore, I'm saying my NX has 362 BHP (154hp + 141hp + 67hp). I'd be wrong - and it will be the worlds slowest 362BHP car - but its going by the same math as what McLaren use lol

here is how it works - EV output is limited by Battery size. Bigger the Battery, bigger the possible output. Since NX300h is not a plugin, it has smaller Battery, so output is lower.

Lexus puts larger motors so they can recover more energy, faster.... recovery is very important since you can only use what you can recover. This is why in real life, Lexus/Toyota hybrids have much better mpg than VW ones for instance, which have much smaller electric motors for recovering.

So McLaren is a plugin hybrid, with lion Battery. Which means it has much bigger Battery and can output a lot more power. Thats all fine and dandy - problem comes when you are out of plugin range and you have to count on recovery to power the car, which likely means that once out of plugin power (which is 20-30km of EV range), McLaren loses some 120hp and its fuel consumption goes through the roof.

But you wont see any journalist talk about real life mpg or what happens when plugin power is out. They all quote "false" official info that doesnt point out

that the car spends most of the test in electric mode that does not spend any fuel.

So basically, all the data on McLaren and other similar performance plugin hybrids is valid only for first 30km of your drive... after that, it all goes downhill.