2. By: Daniel Sasi

3. History of Hybrid Vehicles Although people may believe that hybrid technology is somewhat recent, hybrid technology has been around as long as cars themselves. First milestone in hybrid technology was when H. Piper filed a patent in 1905 for an electric motor that supplemented a gasoline engine. This patent was not intended to increase gas mileage or cut down gas prices, instead the hybrid was to allow a vehicle to accelerate from 0 to 25 K/HR in 10 seconds.

4. The Woods Motor Vehicle Dual Power In 1915, the Woods motor Vehicle manufacturers created a dual Power hybrid vehicle. The Dual Power used the electric motor to carry the vehicle at low speeds, and gasoline motor to carry the vehicle at high speeds. When the Dual Power vehicle went into production more than 600 vehicles were created.

5. The Godfather of the Hybrids In the 1960’s and 1970’s Victor Wouk was named “The Godfather of Hybrid Vehicles”. Victor created numerous different hybrid designs that were built upon to design new hybrid vehicles in recent years.

6. P.N.G.V. In 1993, the Partnership for a new generation of vehicles was issued by Bill Clinton’s administration in recognition of the urgency of production of cars other than gasoline powered vehicles. This implemented cars using alternative power sources, especially electric powered vehicles.

7. Modern History of hybrid Vehicles It was Toyota and Honda that set the pace for production of hybrid vehicles. Some of the 2009 hybrids available in North America SedansSuv’s Honda Civic HybridFord Escape Hybrid Suv Saturn Aura HybridLexus 400h Suv Nissan Altima HybridToyota Highlander Suv Toyota Prius HybridMercury Mariner Suv Toyota Camry HybridMazda Tribute Compact Suv

8. Parts of the Hybrid Car Gasoline engine-much smaller than on normal cars. Fuel tank-storage for gasoline when not being used. Electric motor-Acts as a motor as well as a generator Generator-acts only to produce electrical power. Batteries-energy storage device for the motor. Transmissions- perform similar transmissions as those on a normal car.

9. Why Go Hybrid? A hybrid vehicle is a compromise between Gas and electric power. Hybrids are intended to significantly increase mileage per the gallon and reduce emissions of a gas powered car. An electric car makes no pollution but can only go 50-100 MPH between charges. The Hybrid is a combination of the both using both gas and electric power when needed. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/hybrid-car2.htm

10. Improved Fuel Efficiency Hybrid Vehicles are so popular today due to the high cost of gas and peoples demand for improved vehicles fuel efficiency. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/hybrid-car4.htm httpauto.howstuffworks.com/hybrid-car4.htm

11. Hybrid Vehicles Hybrid vehicles use a combination of gasoline and electric components to run their motors. Hybrid vehicles improve gas mileage while reducing air pollution. Hybrids seem like a simple reasonable solution to some of our nations economic and environmental problems.