Would you buy gas, or plug it in. How does it all work? And what is the cost per month? Specifically honda civic.
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Would you buy gas, or plug it in. How does it all work? And what is the cost per month? Specifically honda civic.
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With so much emphasis being placed on the environment hybrid cars have emerged as one of the leading ways that we as individuals can do our bit. In fact, hybrid cars have a lot more to offer than being more environmentally friendly and reducing our carbon footprint. Oil prices, and subsequently prices at the gas pump, continue to rise at alarming rates and filling up your tank costs considerably more than it did a year, six months, or even a couple of months ago. The technology is now well developed, but is recognized as being a serious advance.
There seems to be a great deal of confusion about Hybrid vehicles. Simply put, a hybrid vehicle has 2 power sources. It runs on a conventional gasoline internal combustion engine, as well as a nickel-hydride electric engine. Basically, when the car is first started, it runs entirely on stored battery power. Whenever the speed of the vehicle exceeds 20 mph, the gasoline engine automatically takes over for the weaker electric motor. When the vehicle drops below twenty again, the electric motor takes over. As you approach stoplights, the friction of the brakes power friction power generators mounted on the breaking mechanism, which recharges the battery. Also, whenever the car is being run on the gasoline engine, it also charges the batteries. Sounds like it would save a lot on gas right? Not really. The average Hybrid vehicles sticker price is $6000 more than its standard counterpart. Furthermore, those batteries have to be replaced every five years or so, the price of which can exceed $5000. So anything you saved on gas in that five year period, you just blew on replacing the batteries.
Also, one last note, the only time you really save a lot on gas is when you’re doing a lot of in town driving. So if that’s where you do most of your driving, expect to replace those batteries that much sooner.
You buy gas, and by driving and breaking, you charge the battery. When you’re going slow/breaking, you use the electric, instead of the gas.
I’d get a Toyota Prius, I have one and I like it.
Also, Civics are stolen often.
The Prius is better milage, anyway.
no clue, but they sound cool
There only good for city commuting. When driving at highway speeds it runs 100% on the gas engine.