MODERN HYBRID VEHICLE

The increasing level of air pollution due to automobile emissions is becoming the main concern of urban citizens. Also, if we go on using the conventional fuels at the same exponential rate, then certainly they are going to be over within some time.     So we need some other type of automobiles which will be Eco-friendly and which will use fuel other than the presently used conventional fuels. They must have the following features:     

 1) Eco friendly.                                 

 2) More efficient.                        

 3) Less polluting.         

 4) Quiet.                                 

 5) Easily available.            

 6) Safe.                            

 7) Easy maintenance and service.       

All these features characterize Hybrid electric vehicles.                                         

Any vehicle is a hybrid when it combines two or more sources of power. A hybrid electric vehicle combines an energy storage system, a power unit and a propulsion system. A hybrid vehicle's efficiency and emissions depend on the particular combination of subsystems, how these subsystems are integrated into a complete system, and the control strategy that integrates the subsystems. A hydrogen fuel cell hybrid, for example, would produce only water as a by-product and run at greater overall efficiency than a battery-electric vehicle that uses wall-plug electricity. 

                

An extra advantage of hybrid vehicles is the regenerative braking system and minimum energy losses.

Hybrid vehicles like car, submarine, Aircraft, Space Craft are invented. Already the companies like Maini Group- Reva (India), Honda (USA), Toyota (Japan) etc have started the production of hybrid vehicles. Auto manufacturers are making these HEVs with comparable performance, safety, and cost because they know that these three elements are most important to consumers. And by combining gasoline with electric power, hybrids will have the same or greater range than traditional combustion engines. The HEV is able to operate approximately two times more efficiently than conventional vehicles. Honda Insight can go 700 miles on a single tank of gas. The Toyota Prius can go about 500 miles. For the driver, hybrids offer similar or better performance than conventional vehicle