Hybrid Cars – Modern Technology
Hybrid cards have proved to be the emerging revolution in the car industry. It has now become a challenge for many of the manufacturers of the car industry. The luxury carmaker Lexus took the initiative, and developed a line of hybrid cars. In this way, they have shown the market leaders that in this steadfast era that still there are people who are more concerned about the environment.
They have also shown that the luxury car does not need to be compromised in terms of performance, or luxury when using hybrid technology. A hybrid car uses two power sources, which are a gasoline engine, and an electric motor. The electric motor gets its power from the batteries and the gasoline engine from petrol in the fuel tank.
The use of technology has contributed much to the success of the hybrid cars, and they work with the computers. Second most innovative contribution to hybrid cars is of the modern intricate gearbox. Both these facilities are monitored, and controlled by the computers, and it also determines when to use the both simultaneously when extra power is required.
There are two other innovations, which are used in order to utilise the regenerative power when braking, and the other is the start and stop technology. The computer switches on the electric motor, which acts like a generator, and slow down the power to charge the batteries when the brakes are applied in a hybrid car. The start/stop technology shuts off the petrol engine when the car is stationary, as if you are stopping at a traffic signal.
The designers have made the gearboxes more intricate in order to give maximum of power to move ahead the car by using minimum force. It was the need of the hour to attach a smart computer system to this hybrid car, as a typical hybrid car is normally attached with two power sources to move ahead the car. The car is completely monitored by the computer system in terms of its operations. Although the invention of hybrid cars have brought about a revolution, but there are certain myths that need to be dispelled yet.
If compared in prices with the conventional cars, hybrid cars are more expensive than the conventional cars. Apparently, it seems that the hybrid cars are more expensive, but if you analyse, you will come to know that in the end, this is going to save a lot of fuel, and this will lower the road tax. Most of the concepts are misunderstood, such as the battery of the hybrid car needs to be plugged into a power source to recharge the batteries whereas the regenerative braking power is used to charge the batteries.
The third myth is about the batteries of the hybrid cars that these are costly, and do not last long. This is completely wrong. From 150,000 to 200,000 miles, the batteries of a hybrid car can last. The fourth myth is about the lack of performance of the hybrid cars that is very wrong as well.
This again is wrong as a hybrid car draws power from two sources, and the second source kicks in immediately when a power boost is required, like when over taking, or climbing up a slope. Hybrid cars are going to get cheaper, as car manufacturers are busy working with researchers to improve batteries, build lighter cars, and a whole host of latest innovations.
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The ES definitely is for old people why? because it has soft suspension setup. Its very comfortable, kinda like a cadillac.
The IS & the GS is not an OLD person's car. Don't ever say the LS is cause thats a very good car.
Don't listen to Janet, she is just being biased, what matters is what you think, if you like it than thats fine.
Its YOUR opinion not others that matters!
My point is captured in Guardian article — where Lexus were completely exposed for their marketing parade about going green, by giving Paul McCartney his own free Lexus Hybrid: “but Paul McCartney faces criticism after his hybrid car was delivered by cargo plane.
The Lexus LS 600h was sent to the former Beatle from Japan as a gift from the carmakers. But campaigners said that any environmental benefits from using the car would be undermined by its mode of delivery… the impact of flying the car to Britain was the equivalent of driving it around the world six times.”
Celebrities think they are being moral hero’s by helping to market a green car — thinking that if they can get everyone else to buy one by smiling in the car… well then its a job well done! regardless of the fuel guzzling super cars they own in their garage!
Toyota are continuously pushing their Toyota Prius (a hybrid) as the green car of the future, but this car has been reported as doing more harm to the environment than good!
Many scientists are saying that Toyota's best-selling hybrid, the Prius, is actually bad for the environment. Some are even asserting that it has a worse impact on our world than the widely-hated Hummer.
With such universal concern (whether genuine or a desire to be “hip”) to live a “greener” lifestyle, it's no surprise that this argument has become quite heated, though surprisingly quiet.
After all, if Toyota says that it's created a car that gets excellent gas mileage and is therefore better for the environment than other cars are, the consumer wants to believe this. So what are these new, conflicting reports?
As it turns out, burning gas is not the only (or even the major) factor in a car's impact on the environment.
The Prius' battery contains nickel, which is mined in Ontario Canada. The plant that smelts this nickel is apparently nicknamed “the Superstack” because of the amount of pollution it puts out; the area for miles around it is a wasteland because of acid rain and air pollution.
But the main problem that the “Dust to Dust” study has with the Prius' impact on the environment comes next.
That smelted nickel then has to travel (via container ship) to Europe to be refined, then to China to be made into “nickel foam,” then to Japan for assembly, and finally to the United States. All this shipment for each tiny step in the production process costs a great deal, both in dollars and in pollution.
The study then concludes that — all the production costs in mind — the Prius costs about $3.25 per mile and is expected to last about 100,000 miles. The Hummer, on the other hand, with all the same factors counted, costs about $1.95 per mile and is expected to last about 300,000 miles.
So keep it green – greenfans! Lets not be by superficial green strategies that are really about making quick, unethical and undisclosed profits — using our moral conscience as their sales strategy.
IF A PRODUCT CANNOT BE MADE 100% SUSTAINABLY — IT HAS NO PLACE IN THIS WORLD!
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Nope Lexus is a Japanese brand, it is the luxury version of the Toyota. It is as different than an Italian Sports Car then you can get. It is boring and reliable, while the Italian is fast, fun to drive but falls apart.
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True.. and the worst part is they are likely to kill people who have nothing to do with drag racing. An incident here last year killed a Pakistani cabbie who was grinding to earn a living to bring his family to Canada. The culprits were sons of wealthy families who were trying to race their luxury cars early in the morning at a street in the midtown area. Murder charge was the right punishment for them.