Although the hybrid car
principle is available since the end of the nineteenth century, when it
was developed by Ferdinand Porsche, the famous car engineer, it took
almost a century for the principle to be transferred into a feasible
and mass produced vehicle. Since 1997, when Toyota unveiled the new
Prius and started the current hybrid cars craze, much has been said
about the newly rediscovered technology and the improvements it is
supposed to bring into the automotive industry. Unfortunately the
public relations mechanisms of all the large companies that provide
hybrid versions or straight up hybrid cars, as well as the governments
pushing for environmental friendly solutions for the future, have
stirred up quite a ruckus and published numerous information bulletins,
which spread all over the world.
Any new technology automatically generates interest and if this
interest is fueled by relentless bombarding of information and new
solutions, then the common individual is facing a huge pool of data,
whereby most of it is nothing else but extreme propaganda. A lot of
wishful thinking, paired with immense greed, sprinkled with falling car
sales, recession and global warming have propelled a simple gadget into
a green movement. What was supposed to be a fuel efficient car, with
emissions ranging somewhere around a diesel engine, suddenly became the
savior of our future, the guarantee of a clean air for our children and
similar nonsense.
The actual improvement are the fuel cell hybrids, the air pressure
hybrids, the hydrogen hybrids and to some extent the plug-in electric
hybrids, the much touted parallel and serial hybrids are not better
than a diesel and the much praised mild hybrid is actually a fake
hybrid. Numbers do not lie, while for instance a Toyota Prius is among
the most fuel efficient and least exhaust fumes generating vehicles,
the true numbers display that the Prius approximately brings similar
results as a conventional diesel engine.
The much touted mild hybrid car system is a straight out fake. There is
an internal combustion engine, which runs all the time in a completely
conventional fashion, where the electric motor kicks in to boost the
performance, when needed. The whole technology works like turbo or when
you click on the nitro kick on a racing car. There are no lowered
emissions, the engine is practically the same, although it needed to be
reduced in volume, to fit the new electric parts somewhere. Actually,
you are getting a weaker and cheaper car, outfitted with an electric
booster for double the money. If you are not buying a plug-in version,
then wait with your purchase until one of the aforementioned solutions
is available, if you are concerned about the environment.

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