Hybrid Car – Definition

By : Hesti Yanuarti

Hybrid Cars

If we hear word hybrid car, we always think about plants and animals. It’s right, the word hybrid which have been cros-bred between species to produce something new. Hybrid car has been a deliberate crossing of fuelling technology to get the best from fuels and to make the resultant cars more efficient.

Hybrid car is far from new. The first hybrid car was built over a hundred years ago – the Mixte built by Porsche. The technology to power the hybrid car of today really began in the 1970s. Victor Wouk is usually seen as the “Godfather” of the hybrid car after he developed a hybrid drive-train for a Buick.Progress stalled when the US EPA ditched the Federal Clean Car Incentive Program in the mid seventies.

Since the 1990s hybrid car have become a viable alternative to standard petrol or diesel cars. Petrol (gasoline) prices are creeping up and the consensus is they are likely to continue rising. The world’s oil deposits are limited and many pundits believe that the amount of extractable oil available is likely to decline over the next few years. This means ever rising fuel prices

So, the logical things to do is to find good alternatives to gasoline as a fuel and to become more efficient in using gas. Hybrid car offer very real fuel savings so they are increasingly popular with motorists.