Hybrid Electric Vehicle

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Hybrid Electric Vehicle

• Ashley Buchanan

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Outline

• History of the Hybrid
• What is a Hybrid Electric Vehicle?
• Benefits
• Prices
• Statistics of the Hybrid
• Hybrids Currently Available

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History of the Hybrid

• 1959-
• Henney Kilowatt was the first transistor-based
  electric car
• 1990s-
• automotive hybrid technology became successful
  when the Honda Insight Toyota Prius became
  available
• 2000s-
• saw development of plug-in hybrid electric
  vehicles

• 2007-
• Lexus offers a hybrid sport sedan the GS450h
• "well in excess of 300hp
• becomes available starting Summer 2006 in US
  Canada.

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What is a Hybrid Electric Vehicle?

• A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is
• vehicle using an on-board rechargeable energy
  storage system (RESS)
• a fueled power source for vehicle propulsion.

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Benefits of the Hybrid

• Hybrid vehicles reduce petroleum consumption
• (compared to ICE vehicles) by using three
• mechanisms
• 1.) Reducing wasted energy during idle/low
  output, generally by turning the internal
  combustion engine off
• 2.) Recapturing waste energy (i.e. regenerative
  braking)
• 3.) Reducing the size power of the ICE engine

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Prices

• Hybrid vehicles are more expensive than
  traditional internal combustion engine vehicles
  (ICEV), due to-
• extra batteries
• more electronics
• in some cases other design considerations.
• The trade-off between higher initial cost lower
  fuel costs is-
• dependent on usage - miles traveled
• hours of operation
• fuel costs.
• A January 2007 analysis by Intellichoice.com
  shows that-
• all 22 currently available hybrids will save
  their owners money over a five year period. 23
• Greeley Tribune says-
• if gas stays at 3.30 a gallon, you can add the
  hybrid
• vehicles' tax incentives.24

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Statistics of the Hybrid

• An R.L. Polk survey of 2003 model year cars
• showed that-
• Hybrid car registrations in the U.S. rose to
  43,435 cars (a 25.8 increase from 2002 numbers.)
• California had the most hybrid cars registered
  11,425.
• The proportionally high number may be partially
  due to the state's higher gasoline prices and
  stricter emissions rules, which hybrids generally
  have little trouble passing.

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Statistics of the Hybrid Continued

• Honda Civic Accord hybrids-
• Sold 26,773 hybrids in the first 11 months of
  2004
• Toyota has sold a cumulative 306,862 hybrids
  between 1997 2004
• Honda has sold a total of 81,867 hybrids between
  1999 2004

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Hybrids Currently Available

• Automobiles and light trucks
• Locomotives
• Buses
• Trucks
• Military vehicles
• Taxicabs