Hybrid cars are what you can describe as a cross between a normal gasoline motorized car and an electric motorized car. It employs together the two power sources to run the car and has 2 engines. One is the gasoline engine and the other is the electricity engine. Hybrid cars run on fuel when it is running , and it runs on electricity which is given from the car battery , when it is idle.There are 2 main types of hybrid cars presented these days. One is the parallel hybrid car and the other is the series hybrid car. In parallel hybrid cars, together the electric motor (and the car battery) , and the gasoline motor are attached to the transmission. This means that both motors will be capable to run the car unaided and will give driving power.In the series hybrid car, the gasoline engine is not linked to the transmission. It is only connected to the generator to charge the car battery or to power the electric motor to provide propulsion .Now that we recognize the worth of the car battery , what is a  Hybrid  car battery ?The hybrid  car battery is the energy   tool for the electric engine but the  hybrid  car battery is also such as any other car battery , and  it  is rechargeable and has an adequate amount juice to move a large massive car on the road for a number of feet or a number of miles.The design of the latest hybrid  car battery is thought to be more compact and holds electricity that is created by the car driving system until it is required for the cars use.Usually a hybrid  car battery is ( planned, or also under warranty), to last 10 years or 160,000km of driving, it is not expected that the car user will has to change the car battery previous to the time he throw out the car. In hybrid cars, the electric engine is able to pull out power from the car battery and also put power onto them. This signify that at the time the electric motor is running, it can repeatedly renew the batteries built-in the hybrid car.While the hybrid  car battery is being used in idle state , it will without human intervention disconnect the gasoline engine and activate the electric engine to run your car. It will change back to the gasoline motor once you step on the gas pedal  of the car .At present, a hybrid car battery is  able to revive whilst the brakes are in use. It can  also being revived from energy generated by the motor.Just a reminder :the hybrid  car battery is one of the most dangerous things that would need exceptional getting rid  of when it has died.With all of these benefits, a hybrid car is the car of the future. It may effectively conserve gas, it can run in silence, it has small toxic fume emissions, and it may in addition conserve you very much  money from huge tax breaks for hybrid car buyers…

As an engineer I have been studying and following the renewable energy debate and developments for well over 30 years and many useful as well as useless inventions/solutions have crossed my road of discovery.

One tendency, which always seems to stand out, is the all or nothing approach.

All wind power or all nuclear power or all wave, solar etc. and lately all hydrogen, rarely ever a composite/combination of current conventional and renewable energy resources.

The latest fads seem again all nuclear or all hydrogen and the most laughable of them all “Carbon Sequestration”.

CO2 Sequestration, i.e. compressing CO2 and pumping it to the bottom of the oceans or into some geological cavity is as costly in energy consumption as the building, as well as decommissioning of nuclear power stations and the storage of radio active waste and equally hazardous.

Using Bio Fuels, with its current technology, is a bit like incinerating your breakfast, lunch & dinner to drive your car.

Even more fascinating is that all of these latest offerings are not feasible for another 10 to 30 years, requiring huge amounts of funding to prove or disprove their viability. So it seems that invariably concepts are being promoted which have no immediate application when there are ample and proven concepts that can be implemented now with considerable immediate benefits.

Methods such as co-generation (recovery of waste heat) or preheating by renewable resources rarely rate a mention. Both methods are only a few of the many options guaranteeing substantial reductions in fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

Again, the aspect of the hydrogen as fuel debate is the all or nothing approach. It is nothing new that cars (and planes) can run on hydrogen. The catch here is the, currently, enormous cost of the fuel storage and the non-existing infrastructure. It is even proposed to generate the hydrogen from, would you believe it, carbon based fuels or nuclear power.

One can only wonder why the viable and relatively low cost conversion of existing means of transport is so rarely being considered as an option. For many years now the conversion of petrol powered vehicles to LPG/CNG was feasible, economical and aided the reduction of greenhouse gases.

Hybrid cars, powered by a combination of internal combustion engine, batteries and electric motor can be another, but still very expensive, option to lower fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

So why not use hydrogen in combination with conventional fuel to reduce your fuel consumption and your environmental footprint? It is a proven technology. A low cost on-board hydrogen generator produces small quantities of hydrogen serving as a combustion enhancer. This hydrogen generator only operates while while your petrol/diesel engine is running making it perfectly safe, saves substantial amounts of fuel and does not require any hydrogen storage. In other words no hydrogen is produced when the engine is not running.