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It has been estimated that there will be approximately 1200 million motor vehicles by the year 2020. That is almost twice the number of cars that are already traveling on our busy roads. Due to this ever increasing vehicle population, the demand for fuel will continue to increase as well. With the depleting supply of oil already an issue for the U.S. especially, there is a growing interest in alternative energy fuels that can be used to power motor vehicles.

Electric motor - The electric motor on a hybrid car is very sophisticated. Advanced electronics allow it to act as a motor as well as a generator. For example, when it needs to, it can draw energy from the batteries to accelerate the car. But acting as a generator, it can slow the car down and return energy to the batteries.

Many other people continued the development and improvement of electric automobiles and for a time electric automobiles were the preferred type of Automobile because of their quiet ride, quick start-up, and lack of pollution. In fact electric automobiles held the land speed record well into the early 1900’s. However, they began to decline in the early 1900’s because of the increased prevalence and efficiency of the internal combustion engine.

Electric vehicles are praised for their ability to travel a considerable amount of distance using only electricity without having to constantly stop at gas station to refuel and in turn decreasing their carbon footprint;however, because they are running on all electricity and are not using an internal combustion engine, they are able to achieve fast take off speeds (acceleration) but are unable to acquire fast top speeds because of their lack of gears. In addition to being unable to achieve high top speeds, it takes the electric vehicles a considerable amount of time to fully recharge their battery packs and get them back on the road. The Tesla Model S however is able to go above and beyond the standard electric vehicles in the sense that it can achieve fast acceleration, a very high top speed,

Hybrid cars are better than traditional cars because they more efficient. Automotive technicians explains that hybrid cars are getting a minimum of energy to be used on them. John Kelly says “This teamwork results in hybrids that get close to 50 miles per gallon, a 25-percent improvement over gasoline-only vehicles.” Basically, John Kelly is saying hybrid cars get up to 50 miles per gallon, they increased the amount of regular cars. This means they use less in gas at low speeds and at high speeds than the engine kicks in and gives that satisfy the customer needs for speed. Automotive technicians indicates that when the car is not moving then the gasoline engine shuts off to not waste gas. John Kelly says “The battery provides energy for the

The electronic car can not be called as the fastest remote control car and also need constant recharging and also are slower than the nitro engines.

Now, in a hybrid car, there is a battery assisting, so that the cylinders have to do less work, and consequently use less fuel. A Prius has only 84 horsepower without its electric battery, and wouldn’t even be able to start! (Regular Car Reviews, Youtube) But this battery isn’t all good, which brings us to the first problem with these hybrid cars.

This essay will talk about automotives and how they changed the human society significantly. Cars are getting faster and faster. Cars are getting more energy efficient. Also cars are getting more durable and safer.

The steady increase in electric vehicles over the past 10 years is a result of gasoline scarcity. Many believe this reason plus environmental factors are what forced scientist to develop an alternative. The idea of a vehicle running off of electricity without a combustion engine sounds very extreme and futuristic. The majority of people fail to realize the electric car was originally introduced in the late 1800’s, but was eventually put to rest with the conveniences of gasoline power. The two currently competing sources of automobile energy have already duked it out about a century ago, and the once defeated electric car is off the mat for round 2. As described in Technologies Tortoise and Hare (2000DATE?) “It is a dynamic process of competing strategies and, for the automotive industry, a very traumatic even in a vital historical drama.”

Mankind has made many extraordinary innovations for the world most having their debut in the motor vehicle department. Inside the motor department is a race for the greatest motor to put in all cars. The motor needing both performance and economy in mind. People have disagreed often over which motor concept would be a better source to make the wheels spin. There are two motors in question; they are the hybrid and electric motor. Since they are both still fairly new, the idea of knowing which to improve and which to terminate is a difficult decision. However, this is a good time to look at both motors in their semi mass production stage. Before we invest too much money into the wrong one. We will see how the hybrid takes the lead and the

These hybrid cars have been tested and matched up against conventional cars in almost every category possible. One of the main, and important, categories is the gas mileage, and this is one of the best reasons why people decide to go for these hybrid models. For a regular, conventional engine, vehicle, there is only one source of energy powering the engine, and therefore the car, and we all know that is gasoline. But with the hybrids, there is that second energy

Moreover, ghe electric motor is not the only aspect that contributes to hybrids’ fuel efficiency. The feature “Idle-off” is often found in Hybrid vehicles. Idle-off works much like a refrigerator’s light bulb when the door is closed. When stopped, hybrid vehicles will go into idle-off, turning off the combustion engine while still powering the interior technology with the vehicle’s battery, saving fuel.

In order to understand the why behind the need to change from fossil fuels to hydrogen power, it is necessary to understand what that power is and how it works. Hydrogen is the most abundant and simplest element on earth. It is most commonly found as part of water. In its pure gaseous form it is extremely light, but when ignited in this state releases a large amount of energy in an explosion. In this violent reaction the hydrogen combines with free oxygen molecules in the atmosphere and creates water vapor. This is similar to the way gasoline is combined with air and ignited in an internal combustion engine in the cars used today and like with gasoline, the combustion of hydrogen has risks. In addition to the risk, some of the energy released in the reaction is lost in the form of sound and heat. As an alternative to burning, these same gases can be combined with the use of catalysts to extract the free electrons produced as liquid water is formed(Popovici and Hoble Dorel). Using cables connected to a fuel cell such as this, those electrons go through a circuit, generating electricity. This is more efficient than combustion because less energy is wasted in the form of sound and heat. Going further, greater efficiency for this reaction can be had the lower the temperature it is allowed to take place at, with 83% power at 25◦C(77◦ F)(Popovici and Hoble Dorel). As fuel cells are created with better heat management and

Chapter 1 will be on history hybrid vehicle Chapter 2 the Definition and introduction of hybrid vehicles the simple layout of what is hybrid vehicles why is the hybrid vehicles selected and how the hybrid vehicles work. Chapter 3 then describes Characterised off hybridization in chapter 4, Components of hybrid vehicle chapter 5 advance technologies in hybrid vehicle, chapter 6 types off hybrid vehicle and chapter7 describes advantages and disadvantages of hybrid vehicles. And at last the conclusion from the work and the areas of further work is discussed

Electric car is an alternate fuel automobile that uses electricity instead of petrol or diesel. These automobiles have electric motors and controllers used for propulsion. These vehicles do not use the traditional or the common methods of propulsion like ICE (internal combustion engine). These cars are energy efficient and are capable of reducing city pollution because of the zero tail pipe emission.