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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / June 2005What is a Hybred Car?
I keep seeing commercials advertsing Hybred Cars. What are they ? Thanks Jim A cross between a horse and a water wagon. mike > I keep seeing commercials advertsing Hybred Cars. > What are they ? > > Thanks > > Jim That is "High Bread" > I keep seeing commercials advertsing Hybred Cars. > What are they ? > > Thanks > > Jim >I keep seeing commercials advertsing Hybred Cars. >What are they ? > >Thanks > >Jim =============================== A hybrid car contains both an electric motor and a small gasoline engine. It runs on the electric motor in most "stop-and-go" city travel and switches to the gas engine for steady speed driving. The advantage is that the total fuel cost is much less. The disadvantage is that the car is usually extremely expensive and the fuel savings take a long time to offset the purchase price. Jack >>I keep seeing commercials advertsing Hybred Cars. >>What are they ? [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Jack To say nothing of the cost of eventually needed to replace the expensive battery when it eventually dies... >> A hybrid car contains both an electric motor and a small gasoline >> engine. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >To say nothing of the cost of eventually needed to replace the expensive >battery when it eventually dies... =================== Good point. Jack >>To say nothing of the cost of eventually needed to replace the expensive >>battery when it eventually dies... > =================== > > Good point. And the environmental damage from disposal of the battery. Even recycled it will damage the environment, possibly more than a non-hybrid vehicle. >>>I keep seeing commercials advertsing Hybred Cars. >>>What are they ? [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >To say nothing of the cost of eventually needed to replace the expensive >battery when it eventually dies... I heard the Toyota Hybred, factoring in cost of battery replacement only saves about $500/year in operation costs compard to other same sized vehicles , with it operatin at max efffency. Now that doesn't sound much, especially compared to the intitial cost of the hybred car. I have no proof about that information being totally correct, so I'm asking.. considering the higher cost of gasoline now, what is the projected operations savings verses a simular sized car, over the average life span? Now I can G for it, but I was wondering if an 'expert' had a good source for this information. thanks, tom @ www.CarFleaMarket.com
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