| A Hybrid car is one that is green and clean, hence | | | | made by Honda and Toyota are the best known |
| not only protecting the environment but also your | | | | among hybrids. |
| wallet by efficient fuel consumption. Hybrid cars | | | | There are certain features in a hybrid vehicle that |
| actually combine two kinds of energy components | | | | are especially built and help in better performance |
| for operation. One is petrol and the other | | | | of the car, so that it can be fuel-efficient. In times |
| electricity, hence making the vehicle such that it is | | | | like these when fuel costs are high, hybrid cars |
| hyperactive low emission, and quiet as well as | | | | can be very useful. They may be a little |
| cheap to run. | | | | expensive as compared to the non-hybrid ones, |
| The first and foremost advantage of a hybrid car | | | | but they are worth it, as they save a lot on fuel |
| is associated with the protection of the | | | | as well as environment. |
| environment, as hybrid cars have very low | | | | Hybrid cars have the ability to drive up to sixty |
| emissions and hence not having the greenhouse | | | | miles per gallon, as opposed to the normal vehicle |
| effect. The cost of fuel is less, and the resale | | | | that drives twenty two to twenty eight miles a |
| value of hybrid cars is very good, hence making | | | | gallon. Slow and smooth acceleration of a hybrid |
| the car financially very feasible. | | | | car can help you save the gas. There are ways |
| There are two main types coming in hybrid cars. | | | | of handling a hybrid car that can actually help you |
| One is the Parallel and the other Series. In the | | | | in increasing the fuel efficiency of the vehicle. |
| parallel hybrid, the petrol and electric motor of the | | | | The main advantage of a hybrid car is that it |
| car have the ability to power the transmission at | | | | uses a lot less fuel to start with and when there |
| the same time. However, in series hybrid, the | | | | is less fuel, there would ultimately be lesser |
| petrol engine of the car doesn’t directly | | | | emissions, hence protecting the environment from |
| power the transmission. Instead, there is the | | | | the ever-increasing pollution, as individual effort |
| generator that charges the batteries or the | | | | becomes collective effort for the betterment of |
| electric motor, which actually perform the | | | | the Earth. |
| transmission. | | | | Hybrid cars started in 1999. It was when Honda |
| There are cars that are Full hybrid and there are | | | | introduced its first hybrid car. With more |
| Assist hybrids as well. The former ones can run | | | | awareness about the environment with the |
| on the engine alone and can run on the batteries | | | | passage of time, the demand for the hybrids has |
| or both, whereas, assist hybrids are the ones that | | | | been increasing over the passage of years. People |
| possess a small gasoline engine that provides | | | | who want to save the environment as well as |
| them with the primary power. Some of the cars | | | | costs are very likely to buy hybrid cars. |