La Primer Generacion: Hybrid Cars

Ever since the Toyota Prius
shook up the automotive world, many companies were trying to follow
suit and jump in on the bandwagon. The technical idea and the science
behind the hybrid cars was based on the electric cars of the past,
fused with the combustion engine. Many ideas were floating around and
some of them were followed up upon. While it was without problems
possible to manufacture a midsize car or a sports utility vehicle, it
took a while to develop technology which would support a hybrid sports
car. Actually, the first hybrid sports car is usually a mild hybrid,
meaning that the hybrid part is only used as a boost.
In order to understand what a mild hybrid is, it is necessary to
understand the technology. The idea with hybrid cars is to provide an
electric car with a combustion engine to power the electric part.
Depending on the system, it may be parallel, which means that the
electric motor is running the car, the combustion engine kicks in when
additional power or acceleration is needed; the serial hybrid uses the
internal combustion engine to feed the electric motor, which is running
the car. It is possible to provide a plug-in option, generally to the
parallel hybrid car, to allow the electric motor to be charged
externally,

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