22-02-2013, 10:17 AM
NEXT GENERATION VEHICLES
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NEWS TODAY
Honda : electric vehicle,plug in hybrid 2012 :insight CR-Z HYBRID
Nissan Motor : Leaf electric car began taking orders
Toyota : electric vehicle, 2012
Mitsubishi : began selling mass produced electric vehicle, MIEV (Mitsubishi In-wheel motor Electric Vehicle)
Gasoline 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
A gasoline car meets these requirements but produces
a relatively large amount of
pollution and generally gets poor gas mileage
An Electric Car
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.
An electric car, however, produces almost no pollution, but it can only go 80 to 161km between charges. And the problem has been that the electric car is very slow and inconvenient to recharge .
Hybrid Cars
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
Peugeot Citroen has diesel-electric hybrid cars in the works.
Parallel Hybrid
Has a fuel tank that supplies gasoline to the engine and a set of batteries that supplies power to the electric motor. Both the engine and the electric motor can turn the transmission at the same time, and the transmission then turns the wheels
Parallel hybrids, such as Honda's Insight, Civic, and Accord hybrids, can simultaneously transmit power to their drive wheels from two distinct sources—for example, an internal combustion engine and a battery-powered electric drive.
Although most parallel hybrids incorporate an electric motor between the vehicle's engine and transmission, a parallel hybrid can also use its engine to drive one of the vehicle's axles, while its electric motor drives the other axle and/or a generator used for recharging the batteries. (This type is called a road-coupled hybrid).