I have been involved in a lot of environmental work sinced I educated myself with global warming. I own a car, but it’s a truck. I really want to get rid of it and trade it in for a hybrid car. I heard that hybrid cars don’t have the best life span and also more expensive to maintain (to fix), and the battery cost a lot if it dies. Could someone please tell me more information about hybrid cars?
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How long will it take car companies (like the failing ones right now…) to develop their own hybrid cars? Especially hybrid trucks.
Also, how long does it take to create new hybrid technology?
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Is there a different between the two or they are the same type of car? Because when I google, I got hybrid electric car.
Thanks!
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I am curious to know how much nickel is mined for the average hybrid car battery? I’ve heard hybrids toted as the solution, but nickel is a finite resource which must be mined. As I understand it the batteries are extremely heavy composed of mostly nickel.
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I want my next car to be a hybrid and I do not want to spend a fortune. Who currently makes the cheapest hybrid car money can buy?
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Ok so with all of the inefficiencies of the reciprocating internal combustion engine why don’t they make a hybrid car powered by a small centrifugal turbine that would work like an aircraft APU. The car would have an all electric drive system and the turbine would produce electricity for the electric motor. The FADEC computer would control fuel flow to the turbine as more power was needed. Trains have been doing this for decades so why not cars? A plus would be that you could use any liquid or flammable gas for fuel.
Ok you missed the piont it is an electric car not driven directly by the turbine but buy the electricity produced by a generator connected to the turbine
A single stage centrifugal flow turbine could be machined from a single piece of metal using computerized tools so it would be less complicated to manufacture than an internal combustion engine
I would not consider using and actual aircraft APU I was thinking of something about the size of a turbocharger or maybe a little larger but similar in function to an APU
Get the car moving using battery power then use ram air to help spin up the turbine
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