Laptop Battery Drivers are creatures of habit. They expect a vehicle to start with the turn of a key, respond to the accelerator and brake pedals, and depend on gasoline in the tank to move. What they do not expect is to get more than 50 miles to the gallon in city driving, or a quiet start after stopping at a light. To get those features you need a new class of car called a hybrid electric vehicle, or H.E.V.
With this collection of advanced fuel efficiency features, hybrids can outperform conventional cars in several arenas. Environmental Friendliness Another reason hybrids are more environmentally friendly than conventional gas engines is that they idle less and use fuel more efficiently. The hybrid not only gets better gas mileage, it produces less pollution than other, hybrid cars. Some hybrids are getting 10 to 20 miles per gallon more than a regular gas engine. They are also capable of reducing harmful emissions by 90%.
Thinkpad Clean-air laws in many states and in countries around the world have steadily been demanding lower emissions of airborne pollutants, including oxides of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur, which cars spew in volume. To meet the growing demand for low-emission vehicles, Honda and Toyota introduced hybrid electric vehicles, which are gasoline-burning cars that also use electric motors to move the wheels. The vehicles look like regular cars, do not need to be plugged in to recharge like all-electric vehicles and use only about half the gasoline of a regular car.
Hybrid cars take some time to understand the functioning process.Start by gaining an understanding for how an engine in a hybrid car works.
Microsoft Toyota and Honda introduced hybrid vehicles in Japan in 1997 and brought them to the United States in 1999. Energy Department rankings of 2001 models showed that they were the most fuel-efficient vehicles on the market, with Honda's sporty two-door Insight consuming about 61 miles per gallon in city driving and 68 on the highway. Toyota's four-door Prius sedan was estimated at 52 miles per gallon in the city and 45 in highway driving.
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Laptop Computers Those figures for the Prius are not the wrong way around: it does get better mileage in city driving because at rest and at low speed, its wheels are driven by electric motor. The gas engine is turned off and stays off typically until the vehicle reaches 15 to 20 miles per hour. And when the gas engine is needed, the same powerful electric motor gets it started, eliminating the gas guzzling and the hacking noise associated with a regular car's small starter motor.
Toyota Motors Corp. will reportedly increase production of its popular hybrid vehicle, the Prius by up to 50%, or 300, 000 units by 2007, according to Japan%š business daily, the Nihon Keizai. Toyota is aiming to further dominate the hybrid car market in which it already enjoys a sizeable advantage over other hybrid car makers. Hybrid cars, which offer a combined conventional engine and an electric motor for added fuel mileage is now a main alternative to cars with internal combustion engine.
Laptop Computer The electric motor of a hybrid electric vehicle runs off a battery that is in turn charged by the gasoline engine. But that does not mean that the gas engine must work double time. H.E.V.'s recapture a lot of energy that regular cars just throw away. In a typical car, for example, braking converts the kinetic energy of a car in motion into heat and sometimes noise in the brake pads. In a hybrid electric vehicle, releasing the gas pedal or lightly touching the brake pedal engages a motor-generator that charges the batteries and helps slow the car. If you put heavier pressure on the brake pedal, sensors instruct the car to engage the brakes.
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Desktop Computer This regenerative braking process is one of the more sophisticated fuel-efficiency tricks. Another is aerodynamics. These cars house their small gas engines under swooping hoods and add spoilers in front of the wheels to minimize wind resistance.
Notebooks The somewhat more fuel-efficient Honda Insight is significantly lighter than vehicles of comparable size, using aluminum where other cars use steel and finding other ways to reduce weight to offset the weight of the batteries. The Prius falls behind in this area; it is about 330 pounds heavier than the Toyota Corolla, which is about the same size.
Lenovo Sales of the Prius, with a base price of about $20,500, and the Insight, starting around $19,100, remain modest in the United States. Toyota has sold more than 15,000 Priuses nationwide since the model's introduction in early 2000, and Honda has sold fewer than 8,000 since the Insight arrived in late 1999.
Hard Drive Over the next few years the hybrid electric vehicle market is expected to expand. Ford has developed a hybrid sedan, although it has not gone on the market, and it plans to market a hybrid sport utility vehicle, the Escape HEV, in 2003. The Ford Escape HEV (which is to be marketed as the Maverick HEV in Europe) will combine electric motors with a four- cylinder gasoline engine. Honda plans to market a second hybrid car, a Civic, in Japan in December and in Europe and North America next spring.
Travelstar Demand for hybrid electric vehicles is expected to expand as emission standards grow ever stricter. When standards for reducing airborne pollutants were first introduced, the category of low-emission vehicles, or LEV's, emerged. Then ULEV's (ultralow-emission vehicles) came along, followed by Sulev's (super-ultralow-emission vehicles).
Gateway California, a leader in limiting emissions, has tightened the permissible levels for those standards under rules that are to take effect in 2004. Europe has introduced a new standard for introduction in the 2005 model year. Many regular gas-burning cars will be able to meet these standards, but hybrid electric vehicles will do that and get better mileage, too.
Laptop Parts New York Times - 11/8/2001
Topic: Transportation
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