Hybrid Cars are one of the latest and greatest innovations in the auto industry today.

In this post, we will explain in simplified terms how the Hybrid Car’s motor and battery system work.

Hybrid cars are a combination of a conventional gasoline-powered and an electric-powered car which uses both sources and have two engines; one being the gasoline engine when running and the other, the electricity engine when at idle.

For instance, you start up your car and leave it on idling mode for the next 15 minutes. Essentially, your hybrid car running on idle mode will automatically switch off the gasoline engine and activate the electric engine to run your car. When you are ready to ride and start the car running again, the hybrid car will switch back to the gasoline engine once you stepped on the accelerator pedal.

The Parallel Hybrid Engine Vs The Series Hybrid Engine
There are two main kinds of hybrid cars existing today. One is the parallel hybrid car and the other is the series hybrid car. In parallel hybrid cars, both the electric motor and batteries, and the gasoline engine are connected to the transmission. Both motors are able to run the car independently and can provide propulsion power.

On the other hand, in the series hybrid car, the gasoline is not connected to the transmission. It is only connected to the generator to charge the battery or to power the electric motor to provide propulsion.

The Hybrid Car Batteries
The batteries in hybrid cars are the energy storage device for the electric motors. In hybrid cars, the electric motor is able to draw power from the batteries as well as input energy into them. Essentially this means that when the electric motor is running, it can continually recharge the batteries inside the hybrid car.

Today’s technology has advanced such that that a hybrid car’s batteries have evolved to be able to recover power whenever the brakes are applied. It can also recharge energy generated by the motor. And there is absolutely no need to search for that wall plug for recharging your batteries.

This technology is also one of the key reasons why Hybrid Cars are recommended by industry experts to be highly suitable for urbanites in city driving. The reason being that the self-recharging process whenever brakes are applied in a traffic jam stop-and-go situation is the most suitable for the re-charging the Hybrid Car’s batteries!

The Japanese car manufacturers like Honda and Toyota are so confident of this self recharging technological process that they have an 8 year guarantees on their Hybrid Cars.

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