In the Nick of Time: Your Car’s Serpentine Belt

Written by Michael Walker


Drive by any car lot inrepparttar United States and ask to seerepparttar 102664 latest hybrid car models. Don’t be stupefied if eight out of ten tell you that they can’t seem to keep them onrepparttar 102665 lot—that they’re just selling too fast! There is reasoning behindrepparttar 102666 hype: consumers believe in one (or all) of three things, that they’re going to be getting a better deal once gas prices hit $2.50 a gallon, that they’re not sacrificing performance and that they’re helpingrepparttar 102667 environment.

Let’s first take a look at how these cars are put together. First, we have to understandrepparttar 102668 concept of “hybrid”. A hybrid car might be defined as any vehicle that uses two or more sources of energy to propel itself. Seems simple enough. Hybrid machinery is all around us inrepparttar 102669 form of diesel-electric, such as city buses, and nuclear-electric, such as those used on many US submarines. So,repparttar 102670 idea andrepparttar 102671 technology have been around awhile—it’s just now that another energy scare like that ofrepparttar 102672 1970s, that we start becoming resourceful and a little ingenious. Hybrid power is onrepparttar 102673 up-rise (and in-demand) only becauserepparttar 102674 two different types of propulsion possibilities (gasoline/diesel and electric) standing alone have proven an ineffective means to get both power and efficiency in one package. But, working together, there is promise.

A hybrid car, in modern terminology, is usually referring to any car that has a combination of an electric and a gasoline (or diesel) motors. These cars use kinetic energy (referred to as regenerative breaking), absorbed by your breaks when you slow down to a stop, to recharge batteries that in turn pushrepparttar 102675 electric motor. All of this is combined into one finely tuned schematic—the result being power torepparttar 102676 transmission and propulsion power (i.e. wheel movement).

All hybrids contain a gasoline engine, an electric engine, a generator (mostly on series hybrids), fuel storage container, batteries and a transmission.

There are basically two different types of hybrid engines. The first is a parallel hybrid. This sort of hybrid actually contains both a gasoline and electric motor that both operate independently to propelrepparttar 102677 car forward. It’s designed to have two power sources working with one goal in mind. In many ways, they are still “connected”.

The second hybrid is often referred to as a series hybrid. In a series hybrid,repparttar 102678 gas or diesel powered engine doesn’t connect torepparttar 102679 transmission directly, meaning that it doesn’t actually propelrepparttar 102680 car by itself. It actually works indirectly, powering a generator, which in turn (controlled by computer monitoring systems) either feeds power torepparttar 102681 batteries or directly feeds power to an electric motor that connects torepparttar 102682 transmission.

As stated above, hybrid buyers are looking forrepparttar 102683 combination (and compromise) of power and energy that these cars seem to provide. Many gas-powered cars have a lot of horsepower. This is useful for modern driving experiences. No one wants to be doingrepparttar 102684 minimum 45 mph onrepparttar 102685 interstate and stopping to “refuel,” as with purely electric motors. Plus, there’s no need to feel like you should have placed your slow-moving reflective magnet onrepparttar 102686 trunk. However, many gas-powered cars are truly “wasteful” resources because out of those 175 horses, you’ll only have to use less than half that power for everyday driving. We don’t even have to get intorepparttar 102687 harmful environmental factors of pure gasoline engines. We are just now starting to seerepparttar 102688 results of our apathetic attitudes on this subject.

Hybrid Hype and a Small Price Hike

Written by Michael Walker


Drive by any car lot inrepparttar United States and ask to seerepparttar 102663 latest hybrid car models. Don’t be stupefied if eight out of ten tell you that they can’t seem to keep them onrepparttar 102664 lot—that they’re just selling too fast! There is reasoning behindrepparttar 102665 hype: consumers believe in one (or all) of three things, that they’re going to be getting a better deal once gas prices hit $2.50 a gallon, that they’re not sacrificing performance and that they’re helpingrepparttar 102666 environment.

Let’s first take a look at how these cars are put together. First, we have to understandrepparttar 102667 concept of “hybrid”. A hybrid car might be defined as any vehicle that uses two or more sources of energy to propel itself. Seems simple enough. Hybrid machinery is all around us inrepparttar 102668 form of diesel-electric, such as city buses, and nuclear-electric, such as those used on many US submarines. So,repparttar 102669 idea andrepparttar 102670 technology have been around awhile—it’s just now that another energy scare like that ofrepparttar 102671 1970s, that we start becoming resourceful and a little ingenious. Hybrid power is onrepparttar 102672 up-rise (and in-demand) only becauserepparttar 102673 two different types of propulsion possibilities (gasoline/diesel and electric) standing alone have proven an ineffective means to get both power and efficiency in one package. But, working together, there is promise.

A hybrid car, in modern terminology, is usually referring to any car that has a combination of an electric and a gasoline (or diesel) motors. These cars use kinetic energy (referred to as regenerative breaking), absorbed by your breaks when you slow down to a stop, to recharge batteries that in turn pushrepparttar 102674 electric motor. All of this is combined into one finely tuned schematic—the result being power torepparttar 102675 transmission and propulsion power (i.e. wheel movement).

All hybrids contain a gasoline engine, an electric engine, a generator (mostly on series hybrids), fuel storage container, batteries and a transmission.

There are basically two different types of hybrid engines. The first is a parallel hybrid. This sort of hybrid actually contains both a gasoline and electric motor that both operate independently to propelrepparttar 102676 car forward. It’s designed to have two power sources working with one goal in mind. In many ways, they are still “connected”.

The second hybrid is often referred to as a series hybrid. In a series hybrid,repparttar 102677 gas or diesel powered engine doesn’t connect torepparttar 102678 transmission directly, meaning that it doesn’t actually propelrepparttar 102679 car by itself. It actually works indirectly, powering a generator, which in turn (controlled by computer monitoring systems) either feeds power torepparttar 102680 batteries or directly feeds power to an electric motor that connects torepparttar 102681 transmission.

As stated above, hybrid buyers are looking forrepparttar 102682 combination (and compromise) of power and energy that these cars seem to provide. Many gas-powered cars have a lot of horsepower. This is useful for modern driving experiences. No one wants to be doingrepparttar 102683 minimum 45 mph onrepparttar 102684 interstate and stopping to “refuel,” as with purely electric motors. Plus, there’s no need to feel like you should have placed your slow-moving reflective magnet onrepparttar 102685 trunk. However, many gas-powered cars are truly “wasteful” resources because out of those 175 horses, you’ll only have to use less than half that power for everyday driving. We don’t even have to get intorepparttar 102686 harmful environmental factors of pure gasoline engines. We are just now starting to seerepparttar 102687 results of our apathetic attitudes on this subject.

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