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Have you ever considered owning a hybrid car? Well, in this paper, I will tell you all about them. First, I will explain how hybrid batteries are made and how the drivetrain works. Then, I will explain why hybrids are the future of the car industry. Hybrids are reliable, more efficient, and better for the environment.  

 

Hybrid cars have batteries just like fully electric cars, they are just smaller. Most hybrid cars use lithium ion-based batteries where the raw materials are sourced mainly from Africa, South America, and Australia. The raw materials are then processed and made into batteries. 

 

Hybrid cars have two common types of drivetrains. The first is where the car operates as if it was a gas-powered car. The electric motor helps drive the car and can take over as the primary source of power for short periods of time. The second type of drivetrain functions as if the car were fully electric, in this type of system the electric motor does all of the work. This leaves the combustion engine as the second source of power and functioning like a generator. 

 

Hybrids are reliable. They have two different ways of driving whether it is fully electric or just like a normal car. Hybrid cars also use the combustion engine less resulting in less of a need for maintenance. For use in the city having a hybrid would help because the electric motor takes most of the accelerating and decelerating force in place of the combustion engine.   

 

Hybrid cars do cost more in the beginning but they make up for it further down the road. The most popular way is gas mileage, hybrid can expect 6 or more miles per gallon compared to its fully gas powered counterpart. On hybrids you have to do much less maintenance to the combustion engine, because it is being used less.

 

Hybrid cars are better for the environment than fully electric cars. This is because hybrids do not have to replace their battery every 100,000 miles like a fully electric car does. Another reason hybrids are better is they take less power to charge. In California they are strongly encouraging people to get electric cars. But they do not have the power to charge all the vehicles and run everyone else's air conditioning. Upgrading the power infrastructure would cause pollution and more pollution would be made, making the power to supply the demands.  

 

-In conclusion, we talked about how a hybrid works and the different types there are. We discussed reliability and how they can run even if one of their power sources is unusable. We touched on how hybrids make up for the extra cost over their base gas-powered counterparts. Lastly we touched on how hybrids are more environmentally friendly than fully electric cars. Therefore, hybrid cars are reliable, worth the cost, and environmentally friendly and should be the car industry's future.