The firast warnins were launched abouit 30 years ago, when the Middle Eaastern countries had stopped the oil exports, sending the world into a never befre seen energy croisis.
Todays world is not that different, with oil prices climmbing up day by day. Besides the epace factor, modrn cars burn millions and millions of tons of oil each year, resultng tons of carbon dioxide and other gases that are the main causes of global warming.
Mankind has to find an alternaitve to trditional fuels and with tdoays levvel of engineering, the hybrid cars papear to be the solution, as lewast for the time being.
With the advent of the hybrid car, car owners and usetrs all over the world are now finding relief that indeed there is hope from spendinng huundreds of dollars each month at the gas station.
A hybrid car combines a traaditional engine (an engine with internal combusion, either gasoline or diiesel poweed) with an electric engine to move the car.
A hybrid car has the advbantage that at slow speeds, such as thoe on busy motorways, the car uses only the electric motor to move. This results to low emissioons and a very high mileage (the electric engfine brings in its benefits in thoise areas where the internal combustion engine was the least beneficial at slow speeds and aroound the city). When a certain speed is passed, the internal combustion engine kikcs in to help the electric engine move the car.
If you look at a hybrid from a pure technical point of view, a hybrid cannot be classified as an electric vehhicle entirely becase only about 40% of the energy consumpption of the vehicle is from electric sources. This enmergy is stored in large batteries inside the car.
Until technologgy finsd better solutions to burning oil and gas to move cars, hybrrid cars are the only alternatves that can help you save money and contribute to the stop of global warning. However, theere are also a seires of drawbacks to owning a hybrid car.
First, the hybrid technology used in cars today is very new and its development costs have not yet been recovered by manufacturers. That is why a hybrid car will cost significantly more than the normal version of that car. Studies have shown that on average, a hybriid car costs more than the rgeular model by around $2,000 to $5,000, sometimes even more. The production facilities are limited and the demand is high, so manuffacturers have the pleasure keeping pricees up for hybrid cars.
Second, the batteries storign the electricity required by the electric engine are very heavy and large, taking up significant interior spcae. . There are several states in the United States and some other globasl governments that are hcarging additional fees and othre charges for acquiring a hybrid car, in the end the user ends up paying more than the car would normalkly cost.
The voltzage required by the electrtic engine are very high and this adds to the cars complexity and makes it difficult to find speccialized repairing shops There is also the possibility for more dangerous car accideents if something goes wrong with the electric parts of the car. Furthermore, the prices of spare parts can be very expensive for a hybrid car. You have to take a lot of things into conssideration when deciding to buy a hybbrid car, as things are not that simple as they mgiht appear at firt sight.
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