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Essay / Hybrid cars: a blessing or a curse? - 787
Hybrid cars are a curse or a blessingI've always been interested in cars. Since my childhood, I had the wish to know the working mechanism of cars; so I can build my own cars and eventually create and design my own brand. Due to the new revolution in the automobile industry, my interest in cars has become even greater than before because these new revolutionary cars are environmentally friendly. This new revolution was brought to the automobile industry by the introduction of hybrid cars due to high fuel consumption and increasing pollution; it is the best alternative despite their low performance and high maintenance costs, hybrid cars will soon overtake conventional cars. Hybrid cars are the transportation of the future. A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle that uses two or more separate energy sources to move the vehicle. Humans have been driving cars since the 1880s. From fuel-efficient coupes to gas-guzzling SUVs to very expensive supercars, they all use gasoline. Gasoline is the biggest factor that makes or breaks the sale of a car. These hybrid cars are environmentally friendly and can save a few cents, but are still expensive to purchase. There are four types of hybrid cars. The first hybrid car in the list is the parallel hybrid car and the series hybrid car. A parallel hybrid car uses both the combustion engine and the electric motor to power the wheels. In a parallel hybrid, the gasoline engine and electric motor work together in parallel to generate the power the vehicle needs to move forward. The second hybrid car on the list is a series hybrid car, the electric motor inside does all the work of generating power in the vehicle. Although a series hybrid car has a gasoline engine, but the engine does not have a direct connection...... middle of paper ...... you will be able to recover much more benefits from your investment in a hybrid rather than a gasoline engine car. The important feature of a hybrid car is when it comes to a dead stop. Until this time, normal cars were designed in such a way that they gain momentum and energy when they accelerate, but when they stop, they lose all their momentum and energy. Which makes gasoline engine cars less efficient in terms of fuel consumption and more harmful to the environment, as they will now produce more harmful gases. This problem was solved by the engineers who designed hybrid cars. When the hybrid car stops, it recovers the energy it lost during acceleration; this makes the car more efficient than a car with a gasoline engine. The braking system of a hybrid car recharges the battery, which is a great or best thing to have in a car.