While hybrid energy vehicles are enjoying a surge in popularity, due to the slow decline in technology costs, hybrid cars of the future are going to have to meet some stringent demands of the consumer to continue growing. As prices for hybrid vehicles have remained higher than their gas-consuming counterparts, many car buyers are looking the other way when comes to saving the planet.
Hybrid Cars With 4 Doors
Many families were interested in hybrid technology when it first hit the market, but with choices limited and the reduced size of the vehicles, families found they could not fit into the available vehicles. With the 2007 model year released, many family-friendly hybrid cars with 4 doors were unleashed on an anxious public. With fuel-sipping economy on the minds of many families, the availability of hybrid cars with 4 doors is a welcome relief to fewer fill-ups.It all started …
Hybrid Concept Cars
With technology booming and with a growing interest in hybrid technology, there have been a plethora of hybrid concept cars appearing on the scene at auto shows in the past couple years. Heres a look at some of the hottest and most innovative. This hybrid concept car is designed to be among the first high performance hybrid cars. With a 3.3L V6 engine, and a separate electric motor for each wheel, this car can maneuver and accelerate as well as any car available. Named f…
Hybrid Sports Cars
Many are wondering that if a hybrid power plant can be included into existing models, why they cant be used in hybrid sports cars as well. One such innovation, constructed by a team of high schoolers built a diesel-electric hybrid sports car for under $20,000 using a diesel power plant to push the cars back wheels, while using a 200-amp electric motor to run the front drive system. Even with the diesel operating more often than the electric plant, the vehicle brags about 50…
Hybrid vs Electric Cars
There is much in the news these days over the need for alternative energy sources for cars. While there have always been a number of benefits to alternate fuel sources, the current outrageous spikes in gasoline prices have led to increased public desire for an alternative to purchasing gasoline. At an average of $3 a gallon, an individual who burns two gallons of gas on the way to work and an additional two gallons on the way back is spending $12 a day. That equals $60 a week…
Impact Of Hybrid Cars On Environment
The 21st Century is beginning to realise the full extent of the effect we have on the environment around us. If we continue to abuse it the way we have been for many years, who knows what the future will hold?The result of any changes we make now may not be seen for many years perhaps not even in our lifetime. But our children and grandchildren will certainly be affected by what we do now, and the good news is there is a lot we can do to help the environment.
Information About Hybrid Cars
Hybrid cars are one of the most important advancements in travel technologies as they combine the benefits of both gas engines and electric motors to lower gas emissions and help the environment. Information about how hybrid cars work is freely available and there are different aspects that make hybrids popular. Finding out information about how hybrid cars work can help people make the choice to switch especially if they wish to gain the benefits of economizing fuel use, i…
Inventor Of The Hybrid Car
A hybrid car is a means of transportation using two sources of power. It uses a rechargeable energy storage system found on board as well as a fuelled power source as the vehicle’s driving force. The car pollutes less and uses less fuel. Victor Wouk (1919 2005) was an electrical engineer and entrepreneur and the inventor of the hybrid car. He was born in New York City and received a bachelors degree from Columbia University in 1939.
Lexus Hybrid Cars
As the world begins to embrace hybrid technology, more automakers are moving into the new technology. However, one of the initial manufacturers of hybrid vehicles has recognized the need to meet the public demand for a better quality, more powerful hybrid. In 2007, Lexus hybrid cars hit the showrooms combining power, hybrid fuel economy and luxury, all rolled up in one attractive package.
Low Cost Hybrid Cars
Hybrid cars are still fairly new to the majority of us. They use a new method of making cars, and we all know that new methods and new technologies generally mean the resulting product is a lot more expensive than the ones we are used to. However, as that product becomes more widespread, so the cost goes down. This is why low cost hybrid cars are now starting to become slightly easier to find.
Makers Of Hybrid Cars
Deciding on the purchase of a hybrid car first begs the question, who makes them? The answer is just about everyone. Anyone who makes and sells cars are likely to do the same with hybrid cars especially now when their popularity is swiftly increasing. There are many manufacturers who make and sell hybrid cars who are constantly striving for better technologies. New plug in hybrid cars are examples of the lengths those who make these cars are willing to go to improve their…
Marketing Hybrid Cars
Whenever a new product comes on the market, the public must be convinced that this is a product that they cannot live without. The benefits and advantages of the new versus the old must be compelling if you are going to convince shoppers to switch to new fangled brands and items. This is most definitely the case when it comes to marketing hybrid cars. When such a new technology becomes available for the average Joe, he must be sold on the positives of becoming one of the firs…