Saturday, March 15, 2008

HYBRID CARS

Hybrid Cars


A hybrid car is a vehicle that is run on electricity. A combination of a
conventional propulsion system and a rechargeable energy storage system that is onboard the vehicle work together to give the vehicle better fuel economy than cars that run strictly on gas.
Hybrid cars are unlike battery electric vehicles because the batteries used in hybrid cars do not have to be charged by an external source. Instead, in order to get a charge, kinetic energy is generated by way of regenerative braking.

while some hybrid cars make use of their own combustion engine to create electricity. The combustion engines do this by spinning an electrical generator. The spinning does one of two things. It can either recharge the battery or in a more direct way, it can give power to an electric motor. This motor is what then drives the vehicle.
It is true that some people have experimented with electrical vehicles in the past. However, the introduction of the hybrid car outdid these types of cars when it came on the scene.
Because the hybrid car is so innovative in the way it powers itself thats why it saves money that is spent over the fuel , thats why it is called the car of the future. At least that's what some automakers believe, and many consumers agree with them.

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