 About Hybrid Cars
Hybrid Car Myths
Hybrid Car History
Types of Hybrid Cars
Hybrid
vs. Conventional
Hybrid Cars and
Energy Crisis
Environmental Impact
Disadvantages of a Hybrid
Hybrids & the Future
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Are Hybrids Really The Wave Of The Future?
The future, a wonderful, mysterious, awe-inspiring time has promises for us.
Many dream of ending cancer and other diseases. Others dream of bicycles that
fly. And could we someday be able to transport ourselves from one place to
another? Perhaps. But some of us have dreams that aren't that big. All we want
is a car that runs on something other than fuel.
Maybe one nice sunny day, we could all drive up to the pump and put some
interesting chemical in our car that would make it run forever. Maybe we could
gas up on some cooking oil or even oxygen. But for now, we have hybrids. Maybe
they are the answer to our dilemma. Are these cars the wave of the future?
It seems like they are for many reasons. These cars are electric. "Electric" is
a word that is linked with innovation and imagination. Electric signals "power."
That means the power to run and the power to run for miles and miles. That's
what a hybrid car is all about. When you get in one, you'll know you'll get to
where you need to go and you won't have to stop at ten gas stations on the way.
Remember when Edison came out with the electric light bulb? Everyone thought it
was a great invention, and it has changed the lives of all of us. So a hybrid
car is also changing all of our lives. It's new, and very technologically
advanced. Hybrid cars should get the same kind of recognition Edison did.
However, hybrid cars do take some fuel to run them, but that doesn't mean we
should applaud them for being able to run on both electricity and fuel.
With all of the above reasons, hybrid cars seem to be the wave of the future,
but there are a couple of reasons why that may not be true. For instance, there
must be some reason why hybrids are not selling more than conventional cars.
That's because the average customer who looks at the sticker price on a hybrid
car is stunned. It's just too much money for the average car buyer. And how can
a car be the wave of the future if it scares people away every time they come to
look at it on the dealers' lot?
Since the cost possibly overrides the benefits of the hybrid car, a hybrid car
may just be a transitional car, and the actual wave of the future might be a car
that is fueled by something other than "fuel." Whatever that "fuel" is, I'm sure
we will all like it and then we'll be calling that fuel the wave of the future.
Some people today are already fueling their cars with cooking oil, but that
doesn't seem to have caught on world wide like hybrid cars have. Therefore,
cooking oil does not seem to be the solution for us. But, maybe some day, people
will start fiddling with their hybrid cars and come up with something much
better than the design that is before them.
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