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Hybrid Cars
Hybrid Cars are those that use two or more means of propulsion. Internal combustion and electric motor cars are common hybrid cars. The electric portion of the system can be run via rechargeable batteries, or a chemical mix.
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First American made sports car?
It was Mustang from Ford. But tbh it was not that good. Chevrolet then overcame them by releasing Camaro SS.
Like now Chevrolet overcame Ford even by website's design, here check them out:
Do hybrid cars make pollution?
A car's greatest pollution creating point is during construction. The second greatest portion of a car's pollution comes from the destruction of the car.
Hybrid cars are built and will be destroyed at some point. Furthermore they create pollution when they move, the about the same pollution as a conventional car.
They do save about 10% in fuel economy, but create more pollution during the construction due to the extra electronics and batteries.
The premature destruction of a conventional car to allow room for the purchase of a hybrid could mean that the individual increased the amount of pollution to purchase the car.
What are the components of a hybrid vehicle?
A hybrid vehicle is very similar to an ordinary gasoline powered vehicle. The distinguishing factor is that a hybrid car uses an electric motor alongside the ordinary engine to improve gas mileage, or in the case of the Toyota Prius, power the car solely by electricity when driving under 30 MPH.
What is called hybrid computer?
A hybrid computer is a type of computing system that combines features of both analog and digital computers. It utilizes the advantages of analog computing for processing continuous data with high speed, while also leveraging digital computing for precise, discrete data handling and storage. This versatility makes hybrid computers suitable for complex applications such as simulations, control systems, and real-time data processing. They are often used in fields like engineering, scientific research, and advanced manufacturing.
What is an example of hybridization?
methane is the simplist example of hybridization.
hybridization is basically exciting electrons so that it can bond with other elements.
methane is CH4. tetrahederal shape, sp3 hybridization because it's all single bonds.
when you excite the 2s orbital, you leave one electron in that orbital and bring it up to the 2p orbital, namely the 2pz, and then have the four hydrogens share electrons with the unfilled orbitals.
Can the Hybrid be operated without the batterys?
Some can, some can't.
In the system used by Honda if the hybrid battery dies the car will still run fine as an ordinary gasoline powered car, but acceleration will be a little weak. In the system used by Toyota as the transmission is electric if the hybrid battery dies the car can not move.
How do hybrid cars save energy?
They use a lot of less fuel, than a normal car. Gas is one of the most important non-renewable energy sources.
Hybrids are often sterile because te set of chromosoms from one species cannot pair during meiosis with the set of chromosomes from the other species. ("Biology", Reece 7th edition)
How are Plugged In Hybrid good for the environment?
Because there using electricity instead of oil.
Electricity can come from many sources- Solar, Wind, Water to name just a few and those are a lot less polluting than Oil. (untrue)
Above is the common misconception. An electric car runs off of a plug and can get a few dozen mile trip in each day, with enough batteries. These cars do help to some slight degree with environmental issues, but are not hybrids.
Hybrids are autos that run from two fuel sources. Normally, production autos use gas and electric as their two fuels. Graders and construction equipment can be hybrids using diesel and gas.
Hybrids do nothing in terms of positive impact on the environment, but do help slightly with our dependence issue on foreign oil. It is quite possible that hybrids are worse for the environment then conventional autos of the same size due to their shorter life span and the wildly bad chemicals used in their production.
Batteries are never an issue for these auto's as the lead and plastic is recycled. The issue is the gases and chemicals used to make the extra electrical components.
As the name sounds a hybrid is a mix of two different types of vehicles, your standard gas engine and the electric car. So in a sense you have an small gasoline motor and another electric motor that run the transmission. The electric motor runs off of battery storage, there are more batteries than just the one in standard gasoline vehicles. In order to keep these batteries charged there is contraption ( the technical name escapes me ) that is attached to the braking system that converts the stopping motion of the car to energy for the batteries. The electric motor will run the vehicle in slow speed scenarios and the gasoline motor will run in the higher speed scenarios.
How can an electric powered cars help the environment?
Should a viable electric car ever reach production they could help the local environment by displacing the pollution point to power stations which would not have to be near cities. The overall pollution would probably not change significantly. CO2 from auto's is a minor contributor to CO2 overall and the primary pollution from auto's occurs when they are dis guarded. Electric cars would have shorter lifespans and thus dis guarded quicker.
Electric cars would certainly have a place where humans travel less then 20 miles a day (their current realistic range). The average person in the USA travels 4 times this amount. The electric car would need at least a 200 mile potential range to become economically viable. This is why we have seen promises of electric cars for decades yet no production models yet available.
Are savings on gasoline offsetting higher price of hybrid cars?
No, and it is unlikely it ever will. Hybrid autos get roughly the same mileage as their non hybrid counterparts. The possible savings comes if you do extreme city driving. In these situations you may see as mush as a 10% real savings. If you get say an extra 10 mpg (which would be high) and drive 20,000 city miles each year (very high for exclusive city) your savings would be 160 gallons each year. (based on 40 mpg hybrid and 30 non hybrid) Even at $7.00 a gallon the savings of $1120 a year will not cover the cost of batteries in four years.
If you are going to drive a hybrid, ignore the environmental issues (slight negative) and the fuel savings (about neutral with other costs added in ) Where they do shine is their ability to reduce our independence on foreign oil.
Can a car run on nuclear power?
yes, but not directly.
The nuclear power will produce electricity and/or hydrogen. The car can run by electricity and/or hydrogen (as gas, liquid, or solid metal hydride).
That is not exactly true. A car could indeed run on nuclear power. The fuel cell for an aircraft carrier is about the size of a dime. Auto fuel cells could be pin sized fuel rods that could be sold separately and changed as you moved from car to car.
The technology for a safe and viable method for doing this is feasible and doable. The issue would be to move away from fear based technology into one that looked for safe solutions to our energy needs. The only issue that holds back this technology would be the fear factor of individuals and fossil fuel companies.
Why are hybrids more efficient than non-hybrids?
The main reasons are:
- Some energy wasted in braking as heat by non-hybrid can be recovered and stored in the batteries for later use in accelerating the hybrid.
- A lower horsepower, more fuel efficient, smaller, and lighter internal combustion engine can be used in the hybrid that is adequate fro highway cruising speed with the additional power needed for acceleration and hill climbing provided by the batteries than is needed in the non-hybrid where the internal combustion engine must have excess horsepower needed for acceleration and hill climbing even when this power is not in use.
- As the typical purchaser of a hybrid wants better efficiency as a priority than the typical of a non-hybrid, the manufacturers of hybrids go to extra effort to reduce energy lost to air drag, rolling resistance of the tires, etc. than do the manufacturers of non-hybrids. Honda even uses a special 0W-20 oil in their hybrids to reduce energy loss in the engine due to viscosity drag of the oil as it flows thru the engine!
