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Article #285: Hybrid Cars Help Save The Planet

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Buying a new car is spending a well designed, all to reduce the energy
considerable amount of money for most needed to run them. In slow city traffic
people, and with the ever rising oil the conventional engine is automatically
price it is becoming a more and more shut of completely, producing no
expensive affair to own your own car too. emissions whatsoever. When more speed and
With an oil price that works in a way so power is needed, the conventional engine
that a rain in north America raises the is allowed to seamlessly kick in
price people in Finland pays for gasoline partially or fully.
from Russia, it is not strange that the You could own a hybrid car tomorrow
market is eager to be offered more Like much of the car market today, it is
economical cars. the Japanese who have been fastest to
To further complicate matters, we are develop attractive looking hybrid
today well aware that the large scale use vehicles, such as the hybrid powered
of fossil fuel like oil is very bad for Honda Accord and Toyota Prius. Contrary
the environment. Getting rid of all to what one might believe, these cars
gasoline powered engines would be great have also gotten a warm reception on the
for the environment. market.
All of the above has resulted in a new The idea of saving on gas is obviously
breed of cars being rapidly developed. appealing to a lot of people.
These cars combine the best features of Most well established North American
the electric cars with that of manufacturers are also expected to jump
conventional, gasoline powered cars. on the bandwagon of this lucrative market
These type of cars are called hybrid very soon. Many of them, including Ford,
cars, and you are likely to hear a lot Chevrolet and Mercury have in fact
about them in the very near future. already launched hybrid powered version
The electric car revisited of some of their models.
The electric car first sounded like a Since this is now a phenomenon that all
great idea, since it has no emissions big manufacturers are getting into, you
while it runs. However, this is only can expect to see many of these cars
partially true as the total emissions appearing more commonly at local car
depends on how the electricity for the dealers. As this is considered cutting
electric car is produced - if it comes edge technology, one can expect the
from a coal plant for example, it isn't initial prices to be rather high though.
very clean at all. But then again, a hybrid car will mean
Furthermore, the storage of large amounts considerable savings on buying gas. As
of electricity is problematic at best and the competition will no doubt be stiff,
in practise turns electric cars to pure it will be interesting to see how the
bread city cars. Storing large ammounts pricing of these cars develop during the
of electricity is unfortunately a rather next few years.
clumsy affair. While the best thing for the environment
Hybrid cars combine an electric engine would be to cease using any kinds of
with a gasoline powered one, which means fossil fuels, hybrid cars represent one
the use of gasoline isn't gotten rid of of the best alternatives one can right
completely but it can be greatly reduced. now - combining the cleanliness of the
The dual engines also allow for smaller electric engine with the mileage of a
engines to be used, and they take conventional combustion engine. Hybrid
advantage of things like regenerative cars are certainly not to be considered
breaking. unorthodox or overly futuristic - they
Naturally the hybrid cars are also are here NOW.
extremely lightweight and aerodynamically






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