hybrid cars

Hybrid cars

 Hybrid cars means cars that use more than one different sources of power to move e.g. use of gasoline and electricity and this helps in reducing emissions and increases efficiency (Advantages of hybrid cars). Today, hybrid cars are very common around the world due to the fact that they are energy efficient and there is less carbon emission meaning that they are environmental friendly. They are being assembled today by almost all domestic and foreign car assemblages.

In addition, hybrid cars are seen to have reduced environmental pollution in the sense that they help owners of cars to reduce their carbon footprint (hybrid cars). Carbon footprint is the volume of emissions and pollution one contributes personally and it interferes with the environment. However, with reduced pollution, it means that there will be less harm to people hence fewer chances of infections e.g. asthmatic conditions will be rare. Flemish Jesuit invented hybrid cars in 1665-1680. He started with designing a wagon with four wheels and it would be powered by steam and could move on its own. However, it is not well known if he finished building it or if it worked.

During the invention of the hybrid cars, horse power was used to pull them as steam engines could not help them go for long distances. Hybrid cars have been developed in China due to the negative impacts of pollution and they also want to ensure green technology. When hybrid cars were invented they were using steam but that later changed, and they began to use electricity. Use of steam had challenges in that it was difficult to maintain a lot of steam to ride for a long distance (History of hybrid vehicles).

Indeed, today many companies including Toyota have come up with a hybrid model. This has brought a solution to most of the problems of environmental pollution. The rise in oil prices has made many people to convert their vehicles to hybrid. In addition, there is little pollution to the environment. Many countries are encouraging use of hybrid cars because they reduce emissions to the environment. In China where electricity is cheap, they prefer use of hybrid cars rather than building charging stations which requires a lot of money (Faola 165). However, it is very efficient in that drivers can charge their vehicles at their homes.

The electric motor is powered by batteries that one can recharge when driving. This was found in Belgium and there was an introduction of a 3.5 horsepower motor and the little gasoline engine was connected to an electric motor which was situated under the seat of the car. The electric motor was a generator that was used to recharge the battery when driving. However, if the car required extra power to go up a steep incline, the electric motor boosted the gas engine. Hybrid cars are powered by two power sources i.e. electric and gasoline (Doyle 53).

In conclusion, hybrid cars are better than the normal cars which uses petrol due to the fact that these hybrid cars emit no harmful gases to the environment. This invention came at the right time because due to industrialization, the environment has been degraded very much and hence the normal cars adds salt to the injury by emitting their harmful wastes to the environment. In addition, car manufacturers should be encouraged to replace the normal cars with hybrid cars so that the environment can be protected (Inoguchi 94).

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