La Primer Generacion: Hybrid Cars

While there are a bunch of
hybrid vehicles already running around for years, including some city
busses, ships and aircraft, but also cranes and rail, the hybrid cars
are a very recent trend. Pressed by the environmental concerns and
diminishing oil reserves, instead going for broke and introducing new
technologies or even completely switch over to some environment
friendly solution, like the electric car or the car running on water
steam, the companies decided that reducing the pollution is enough if a
compromise is made, namely the huge oil companies got liberated and the
mix between an electric car and the combustion engine car is
introduced. How far this step forward propelled the mankind remains to
be seen, but baby steps seem larger.
Nevertheless, hybrid cars are already upon us and the confusion starts
when you are interested in finding out how that thing now actually
works. Two ideas exist and are used, with variations, namely the
parallel hybrid and the serial hybrid car. Variations include mild
parallel hybrid, plug-in hybrid electrical vehicle and the fuel
cell/electric hybrid.
Parallel hybrid cars have two engines, the regular combustion engine
and an electric motor. In this case, both engines can work together, in
parallel, or individually, producing movement. The trick seems to be
that whenever it is possible, or was thinkable while the

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