Difference between “Hydrogen” and “Hybrid” cars?
November 8, 2009 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles
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Cybertron questioned:
Hi, are they the same business? can anyone tell me the difference? thankfulness
I’m doing a project, so I was also wondering which of these two I may maybe more talk about with the background impacts whether it is clear or unenthusiastic
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Hydrogen is a fuel that makes no fiscal implication. It is wasteful to make it and store it.
Hybrid is using gas (gas) coupled with gripping Storage space space and motors to enable more efficient use of energy.
hydrogen is the lightest gas here is and it really doesnt pollute the atmosprere as much as carbon based gases
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Hydrogen cars burn hydrogen gas as a fuel in domestic combustion engines that are very similar to gasoline engines. The rest of the car is the same as a traditional gasoline car. Hybrid cars have an gripping motor that propels them in low load situations. The gripping motor runs on batteries. The hybrid car also has a gasoline engine. The gas engine runs a generator that charges the batteries for the gripping motor. The gas engine is also collectively to the driveline to help the gripping motor on hills or when accelerating. The gas engine may maybe run on gasoline, diesel, propane or even on hydrogen but all production hybrid cars that I know of use gasoline.
They are perfectly uncommon equipment.
Hydrogen is a fuel type. It can be burned in a habitual piston engine, or in a special reactor called a “fuel cell”, which outputs electricity. It is explosive and fragrance-free.
Hybrid cars have two handbook systems – a battery and an gripping motor, and a fuel engine of some kind (ordinarily a gas engine). They can be obsessed by any logic in isolation or blended. For wits it can turn off the engine and run exactingly on battery/motor in stop-n-go conveying. Or it can use both at once for maximum acceleration. It can give a new lease of life the battery any from the engine, or by “dynamic braking”, i.e. using the motor as a generator to renovate your health potential. (locomotives have done this for 50 being.) Some hybrids can give a new lease of life the battery at home by plugging into any wall outlet — so they can go many miles exactingly on that very low-cost potential, using no fuel at all!
For wits the Chevy Volt will be able to go the first 40 miles exactingly on plug-in-the-wall battery potential, at about “50 cents a gallon” equivalent cost. With 40 miles it will have to start the engine to keep inane, and that will use up fuel
Hybrids save fuel by turning off the engine when it isn’t really looked-for. And by recovering some brake energy into the battery. And by charging at home (if possible).
In view of the fact that you don’t need the engine for acceleration, the engine can be just about anything – generous or small, gas, diesel, jet turbine or — ready for this — hydrogen fuel cell. Yes a car can be both hydrogen and a hybrid. But I wouldn’t hold my breath on that, as hydrogen is a very inefficient fuel.
Here are uncommon types of hybids and uncommon types of hydrogen vehicles. Some hydrogen vehicles are hybrids. Let me clarify.
Here are analogous hybrids that have a gasoline engine and gripping motor work collectively and take turns. The gas engine can handbook the car and/or payment the batteries for the electirc motor. This is a vehicle like the Toyota Prius.
Here are run hybrids that have a gasoline engine potential a generator that can then run an gripping motor. The vehicle runs soley on gripping potential when the batteries have ample payment, then switches to being paid potential from the gasoline generator when the batteries are low. This is a vehicle like the imminent GM Volt.
Here are hydrogen powered vehicles that burn the hydrogen in a conventional domestic combusion engine. These are not hybrids. Mazda has a special translation of the Rx8 sports car that can burn hyrdrogen like this.
Here are hydrogen powered vehicles that generate electricity from hydrogen and air in a fuel cell potential logic. The fuel cell potential is used to payment batteries that run an gripping motor to go the vehicle. This fuel cell vehicle is both hydrogen powered and a hybrid. (uses fuel and battery potential). The Honda FCX is this type of vehicle.
All of these vehicles offer possible environmental benefits over traditional gasoline vehicles. They tend to have lower emissions and privileged efficiency.
Analogous hybrids are here now. Run hybrids with plug-in capability will be here soon.
Both types of hydrogen vehicles seem prohibitively pricey and impractical right now so I am not sure if they will ever become ordinary.
“Hybrid cars” is a generic term for any vehicle that uses more than one fuel source. Hydrogen is one of many fuel sources which may be used in hybrid cars.