efficiency of hybrid vehicles

efficiency of hybrid vehicles
Recently, the government fleet I work for an additional 10 more hybrid vehicles to its large fleet. Seven of these hybrid vehicles are exempt from the electric-hybrid car variety. The other 3 are light trucks or sport utility hybrid vehicles. The interesting hybrid electric car was the Honda Civic Hybrid. This small car costs about $ 23,000.

One of my biggest concerns about hybrid vehicles, the future maintenance of the batteries and related systems. Honda has this concern by using an 8-year 80,000 miles warranty on the battery back up system and components. Another addition to this hybrid-electric car was the standard or Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) in conjunction with the idle-stop feature that temporarily disables the engine at stops drive makes this vehicle very different is your standard automobile .

For example, by an electric motor will stop and then the gas engine starts and takes over the bulk of the work. Then, as you are driving the hybrid-electric car goes faster, without shifting gears. The transmission depends on the required torque as opposed to shift gears.
For me this is very strange. I'm sure I could get for it over time. Driving in the city reminds me of driving a snowmobile that a CVT transmission.

That is what really interested me, from a technical point of view of the electric motor is very thin about 3 cm wide and fits between the engine and gearbox. You use this engine as a motor engine, which sounds and feels like no starter motor I have ever before.
It starts the engine quickly and quietly, even very good. The placement of the electric motor enables the hybrid vehicle batteries is controlled by the engine braking effect. This explains that if you have a slowdown of the electric motor to a generator to recharge the batteries.

The gas engine part of the equation is also very interesting. The 1.3-liter, 8-valve i-VTEC 4-cylinder engine with the ultra-low emissions levels. This means that tailpipe emissions are in the vicinity of 0, is impressive in it self. This little engine uses the extremely low friction concept for improving efficiency. This simplified, the engine turns over with very little effort. Even my fleet companies have to buy a new type of engine oil for this vehicle. The engine is a synthetic oil-Class with a weight of 0W-20. This thin oil aid in the low friction concept. The engine in conjunction with the hybrid-electric car engine with 110-hp.

The hybrid car will not win any drag races, but it moves like its full Gasmotor cousin. Now to the nuts and bolts. What is the hybrid vehicles, fuel economy rating. The Honda sticker states you will receive 49 to 50 mpg. Our initial review has confirmed this.

The vehicle is always the same as our MPG Toyota hybrid electric car. And about 20 mpg more than our electric / gas powered trucks. Am I going to run and buy? The short answer is: No.

Mark Gittelman is an ASE Certified Master Technician with more than 23 years of automotive experience. You can rely on its hybrid vehicles at specialty http://www.auto-facts.org/hybridcar.html

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