Hybrid Cars - Definition

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Hybrid car - it is the car with hybrid electric engine. A Vehicle in which the power that drives it comes from batteries and an internal combustion engine that drives a generator. The engine can also drive the wheels directly and used outside the green zones.

In the case of gasoline-electric hybrids, when the internal combustion engine works it generates more energy than necessary and electric motor is used as a generator and the battery charging system. In other situations, only the electric motor works, feeding on the energy to store in the battery.

Latest hybrid cars can recover kinetic energy under braking, turning it into electricity and charge their battery. Plug-ins is used to charge battery overnight.

All cars using electric batteries charged from an external source having problems of operating autonomy without surcharges. This avoided with hybrid cars which charging their batterires on the run.



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