Automotive

If you don’t want to change your current car, there are still ways you can drive greener.

Lose some weight
Don’t drive around with unnecessary weight in your car – the engine will have to work harder and use more fuel. Empty your car of anything that you don’t need to carry around all the time.

Remove roof boxes and roof racks when you’re not using them – they cause extra aerodynamic drag, which will raise your fuel consumption. Open windows and sunroofs do the same; and for the same reason, get any loose items of external trim fixed. continue reading…

How Hybrid Cars Work – A hybrid car is a passenger vehicle that is driven by a hybrid engine, which is any engine that combines two or more sources of power, generally gasoline and electricity. There are two types of gasoline-electric hybrid cars; the parallel hybrid, and the series hybrid. Both use gasoline-electric hybrid technology, but in radically different ways.
In a parallel hybrid car, a gasoline engine and an electric motor work together to move the car forward, while in a series hybrid, the gasoline engine either directly powers an electric motor that powers the vehicle, or charges batteries that will power the motor. Both types of hybrids also use a process called regenerative braking to store the kinetic energy generated by brake use in the batteries, which will in turn power the electric motor.

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Catch the LA Auto Show this month featuring World and North American Debuts, Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles, and Futuristic Concept Cars!  It all happens December 4-19 at The Los Angeles Convention Center located at the junction of the I-10-Santa Monica and the 110-Harbor Freeways.
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