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• 28 Jan 15
  

  henderk
  • example, a mo-ped (a motorized pedal bike) is a type of hybrid because it combines the power of a gasoline en
  • gine with the pedal power of its rider.
  • rains are diesel-electric hybrids.
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  • diesel-electric
  • Giant mining trucks are often diesel-electric hybrids.
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  • Any vehicle that combines two or more sources of power that can directly or indirectly provide propulsion power is a hybrid.
  • Most hybrid cars on the road right now are gasoline-electric hybrids
  • we'll focus on those in this article
  • The gasoline-electric hybrid car is just what it sounds like -- a cross between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car.
  • A gas-powered car has a fuel tank, which supplies gasoline to the engine. The engine then turns a transmission, which turns the wheels.

  • An electric car, on the other hand, has a set of batteries that provides electricity to an electric motor. The motor turns a transmission, and the transmission turns the wheels.

      

     

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  • The hybrid is a compromise. It attempts to significantly increase the mileage and reduce the emissions of a gas-powered car while overcoming the shortcomings of an electric car.

  • A gasoline car meets these requirements but produces a relatively large amount of pollution and generally gets poor gas mileage. An electric car, however, produces almost no pollution, but it can only go 50 to 100 miles (80 to 161 km) between charges. And the problem has been that the electric car is very slow and inconvenient to recharge.

      

    A gasoline-electric car combines these two setups into one system that leverages both gas power and electric power.
  • The key to a hybrid car is that the gasoline engine can be much smaller than the one in a conventional car and therefore more efficient.
  • Recover energy and store it in the battery
  • Sometimes shut off the engine

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