Hybrid Vehicle

Hybrid vehicle an alternative to gas cars

A new breed of car:

The hybrid vehicle is a new design of car that uses a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS), and combines this with a normal gasoline fueled engine. The most common type of hybrid vehicle is

The Toyota Prius is one of the newer hybrid vehicles which increases the charge to its batteries by using regenerative braking. This vehicle can also generate electricity from the engine when cruising by using a generator or second electric motor. This makes the Toyota Prius a quiet, economical, and an environmentally friendly car, which is becoming very popular with many people who are actively seeking to improve the environment.

It was a German named Ferdinand Porsche who in 1898 designed the Lohner-Porsche carriage which was actually a hybrid vehicle that had its internal combustion engine drive a generator to power the four electric motors mounted on each wheel. This was indeed a ground breaking invention that was at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris and its 56 kph top speed broke several Austrian speed records and a total of 300 of these hybrid vehicle's were sold.

At present some of the most fuel efficient vehicles are hybrid vehicle's because they can be configured in a number of different ways to meet different objectives. The advantage they enjoy is that they can combine the best of fuel driven engines with the electric motor and thus make major improvements in fuel economy without any reduction in performance or range.

The hybrid vehicle functions much the same as an internal combustion engine but can convert energy that normally gets wasted while coasting and braking into electricity that is then stored in the battery until called for by the electric motor.

There are also some hybrid vehicle's that automatically shut off the motor when the vehicle stops and can then automatically restart and so prevents energy from being wasted when the vehicle is idling.

There is no need to plug into an external source of electricity as is required by conventional electric motors because, because the batteries are re-charged during the normal running of the vehicle.

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