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Hybrid Car Technology

For most of the lifetime of automobiles, propulsion has been provided by the gasoline or diesel powered internal combustion type of engine.  There have been brief flirtations with steam, electricity, and vehicles that could use a variety of fuels, but most of these have fallen by the wayside as the gasoline engine pushed billions of vehicles down the road.

However, this single-minded dependence on petroleum-based fuels, and lubricants too, has placed the planet on the edge of a new future…a future without petroleum or, at best, with limited petroleum resources.  Government, business, and designers have combined efforts to come up with some sort of solution to at least part of the problem of maintaining our present way of life with the fact of decreasing petroleum supplies.

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How to Cheaply Convert Your Car Into a Green Car – Save on Gas & Get More Miles

There is an ongoing drive to promote battery hybrid cars, a.k.a. as green cars, as the ultimate answer to your high gas bills and high greenhouse gas emissions.

The substantially higher cost of a battery hybrid car, the depreciation, interest and the cost of the eventually inevitable battery replacement has to be offset against the fuel savings to get some idea as to how much, if anything, you will save by investing thousands of your hard earned dollars in such a hyped up solution.

The jury, on the economics for battery hybrids, is still out and installing an Add-on Hydrogen Gas Generator system is still the cheapest option you can usually do yourself for about $300 (including the How To Manuals) and you don’t have to endure the much bigger expense of buying a new car. You also save yourself a lot of time by not having to fill in any associated paperwork.

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The Best Hybrid Car In The Market – A Green Quandary

The envelope is in, and the winner is…? The judges are getting their honoraria’s worth with the kind of decision they need to make to come up with in their selection of the best hybrid car there is. But it seems they’d really have a hard time deciding, what with the array of hybrid cars that are now on offer to, competing to be the top car in terms of safety, fuel efficiency, emission, comfort and technological innovations.

The Criteria

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