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Hybrid Automobiles:
(Effects on the atmosphere)
Arthur Gil
Environmental Investigations
Professor
April four,2005
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As gasoline rates raise and the atmosphere becomes unstable, people will commence to appear for other modes to energy their automobiles. One of those modes is know as hybrid power. A car is considered a hybrid when it combines two or more sources of power. For instance, a mo-ped (a motorized pedal bike) is a kind of hybrid due to the fact it combines the power of a gasoline engines with the pedal power of the rider. Hybrid cars are an alternative becoming used to lower the emissions of autos and to decrease the quantity of fossil fuels being utilized. Hybrid automobiles also price less to operate due to the fact of the decreased fuel usage.
The gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle is a cross between a gasoline-powered car and an electric vehicle. Hybrid automobiles are all around us. Most of the locomotives we see pulling trains are diesel-electric hybrids. According too How Cars Operate, Cities like Seattle have diesel-electric buses these can draw electric energy from overhead wires or run on diesel when they are away from the wires.
There are two types of hybrids. The parallel hybrid has a fuel tank which supplies gasoline to the engine. But it also has a set of batteries that supplies energy to an electric motor. Both the engine and the electric motor can turn the transmission at the very same time, and the transmission then turns the wheels. In a parallel hybrid, both the electric motor and the gas engine can deliver propulsion power. The other form is a series hybrid. In the series hybrid the gasoline engine turns a generator, and the generator can either charge the batteries or power an
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electric motor that drives the transmission, so the gasoline engine never ever directly powers the automobile.
Hybrid cars have all of the parts that a regular gasoline powered automobile would have, with a handful of extra parts such as the electric motor, generator, and batteries. The electric motor on a hybrid car or truck is incredibly sophisticated. Sophisticated electronics allow it to act as a motor as well as a generator. For example, when it desires to, it can draw power from the batteries to accelerate the auto. But acting as a generator, it can slow the vehicle down and return energy to the batteries. The generator is similar to an electric motor, but it acts only…