Hybrid car. How It Works. Some Basics About Hybrid Cars

Hybrid Car

Let us first see how conventional and electric cars work. The conventional cars uses gasoline powered internal combustion engine which is and the car gets its all the power from this. An electric car gets its power from batteries. The Hybrid cars is one which can run on electric motors or gasoline powered engines or combination of both which creates higher mileage possibility.

The basic features of hybrid cars are:

Smaller engine:
The smaller engine provides enough power to car to run on free way but when the car needs to run uphill batteries comes to its rescue and the car runs on both batteries and gasoline engine. There is no effect in performance and driver could be unaware of the shift from battery to gasoline or vice versa.

Engine shutof:
When car puts brakes or when the car reaches red light the engine shuts down and car is powered by gasoline without driver knowing it

Efficiency:
The efficiency of the hybrid cars is achieved by
# Using lightweight materials for making body of car.
# Recovering energy and storing it in the battery
# Using advanced aerodynamics to reduce drag
# Using low-rolling resistance tires
# Engine shut off at redlight and when car pauses for a while.