How Do Hybrid Cars Operate?
What Is a Hybrid Car? jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/5169468/254730_Full.jpg’); }); Toyota Prius Energy Monitor by It’s Our City In the effort to reduce global warming and decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil imports, many consumers have looked towards hybrid electric vehicles as the transportation option of the future. A hybrid electric vehicle is defined as a vehicle with two sources of motive energy. This usually means some type of internal combustion engine is paired with an electric motor, powered by storage batteries. So-called “pure electric” cars must recharge their batteries from an outside source like a wall outlet. The battery technology of the late 1990s up through the late 2000s was only able to power a vehicle for short trips, limiting their practicality for most consumers. A hybrid drive can either use a small internal combustion engine as its primary sourc
