Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Hybrid....

Hybrid is something that is a combination of two or more original source, as for an example hybrid car. Why does it called hybrid car? This is because it is a combination of electrical car and common car which is the car using oil or gasoline as its fuel. Hybrid car was first known created by the famous Austrian car designer Ferdinand Porsche in 1900.

There are two types of hybrid car. The first one is a mild type which is the electric motor only assists the gasoline engine to drive the car. The second one is the full type which is the electric motor itself drive the car. Hybrid cars have two design types which are the series and parallel. In series design type the gasoline engine is used to genera

te electricity while the electric motor drives the car. In parallel hybrid both the gasoline and electric motor drives the wheels.


Hybrid car is very expensive because it has a combination of two technologies and the demand for it is not high. Although it is expensive it is a very environmental friendly car. It can be a solution to cater the global warming scenario that cause by using conventional car which release green house gas to the air.


Well that is a little bit of an introduction of the hybrid car. To know more about its technology and its advantages there is one book you can look into. Anyway book is a good source of knowledge. The title of the book is “How Do Hybrid Cars Work”. The author is ‘Richard Hantula’. It is a simple yet informative reading material. Yo can even get it in Ebook version via the net.



*Note: some of the picture were taken from the book.

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