This article is about the aspects on hybrid vehicles. They include: how hybrids work, the price ranges, Thee amount of variety in hybrids and their obvious fuel efficiency. This relates to the unit, chemical reactions. The big idea focused from this article is chemical reactions and their applications have significant implications for society and the environment. This article tells of the future of the car industry while making changes to decrease the amount of emissions a car exhausts.
A hybrid vehicle consist of two engines. an electric motor which provides energy to the vehicle under certain conditions (i.e idling) and a gas engine, smaller than the traditional gas engine found in gas-powered vehicles. A hybrid utilizes both by combining them for maximum power or by switching between the two engines to provide maximum efficiency. The use of a rechargeable battery pack provides power to the electric motor. The two main types of hybrid vehicles are a "mild hybrid" and a "full hybrid." A mild hybrid still relies on a gas engine however, their electric motor is able to recharge itself during braking or downhill driving. During idling, the gas engine can be shutoff and replaced by the electric motor. Full hybrids have the ability to run on one motor without the use of the other engine. No gasoline is used when the electric motor is sufficiently charged.
A hybrid vehicle has a higher initial cost than a gas-powered vehicle because of its duel engines and the need to redesign a current vehicle to hold these motors. Companies have been in the works to improve the profitability. New ways to make this happen are by improving the amount of savings that can occur from a hybrid purchase and by reducing production costs.
The hybrid vehicle is considered the green-car for many reasons. The obvious reason is that, it lowers gas emissions by shutting off the gas engine during up hill driving or driving at constant speeds for long periods of time. Also, the noise pollution that gas-powered cars give off; When an electric engine is running, it gives off next to no sound.
Performance-wise, a hybrid vehicle out performs a gas-powered vehicle in mileage by 20-30%. Because of a hybrid's rechargeable battery through braking and kinetic energy, this allows the hybrid to be able to last longer than a gas-powered vehicle. The amount of savings received over gas is incredible over a gas-powered engine and the tax benefits received from most governments allow hybrid users even more savings.
We learned about the applications that chemical reactions have in our daily lives and the effects the final product does to our environment. The hybrid is the future vehicle because of its green ability. Ever since, we learned the effects the gas-powered vehicles have on the very real global warming, the world has been trying to be more environmentally friendly by: planting trees and switching to an alternative power source. this alternative power source includes cars because the amount of emission we produce daily just by driving to and from work is extraordinary. the hybrid vehicle provides nearly no emissions and utilizes the power of electricity to power itself. When this hybrid vehicle becomes a national vehicle, the amount of gas emissions produce will reduce ten-fold!
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