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The GMC Yukon Hybrid is marketed as being the world's first “two mode” hybrid vehicle. With that in mind, you may be wondering exactly what is meant by being a “two mode” hybrid vehicle.

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With rising fuel prices and the ever prevalent pollution emitted by the conventional vehicle adding to our Greenhouse effect, the need for a more efficient vehicle is a must for today.

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What Do I Need to Know Before Buying a hybrid Car?

The days of 50 cent gas prices have vanished along with sock hops and soda shops. Now days gas is closer to $2.50 a gallon and kids go to raves. What can be done? Are we destined to spend more on gas for a week than we do on groceries? Enter the hybrid car. Every year, more hybrid cars hit the market, and for good reason, consumers today are beginning to demand more fuel efficiency from their cars. If you are interested in purchasing a hybrid car, you are not alone, but you may not know what to look for while car shopping. The following tips will help you plan what you want in a car and how to find it on a lot.

Hybrid car dealers also have their own language, you should know how to speak 'hybrid' before you decide to go shopping for one of these vehicles. You will need to know that these cars are, on average, have a 90 percent lower emission rate than traditional cars and are therefore known as Ultra Low-Emission vehicles.

Research is so important when contemplating the purchase of a [tag-ice}hybrid car[/tag-ice]. Thankfully, most people have access to the internet and therefore have access to information such as manufacturers websites. These websites may be some of the most valuable information that you will find. They will contain information that will lead you to repair shops, vehicle maintenance requirements and other such information that is specific to hybrid cars.

However, if needed, the engines will run simultaneously as well. This will happen if more power is needed than either the electric or combustion engine alone can produce. An example of this type of situation would be accelerating on an expressway.

Before you decide to tackle the hybrid car market, there are some general points of knowledge that you need to be aware of. For example, this type of car is often referred to as a Hybrid Electric Vehicle or HEV. It will have two engines as opposed to a traditional vehicle, which has one. The engines that are found in an HEV are combustion and electric, having the two engines allows the car to switch from one engine to the other when power begins to run low.

by Peter Wallander

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Demand for a car that would be economical to run and one that would not pollute the atmosphere has resulted in the development of the Hybrid car. Vast strides made in the recent past in gasoline engine technology, has made the Hybrid car a popular reality.

A Hybrid car is a vehicle that uses two power sources, a rechargeable energy storage system and a fueled power source. The Hybrid car uses less fuel and emits much less pollutants.

It was in 1899 that Ferdinand Porsche developed the first working Hybrid electric vehicle followed by a number of others who innovated on the original invention. While some form or the other of the Hybrid vehicle has been in continuous production, no major manufacturer of automobiles took it up for bulk production and marketing, till late in the twentieth century. The technology was used primarily for use in diesel-electric submarines during that period.

The diesel-electric submarine works more or less in the same way as a modern Hybrid car does. The main difference is in the need for conserving oxygen in the former rather than any need for economy of fuel consumption. Subsequently, submarines have been evolving and have even begun to use nuclear power.

Toyota Prius and Honda Insight, two Hybrid cars were launched successfully in the 1990's. These two pioneers of the Hybrid car concept have changed the perception of the market about automobiles.

An idealistic American inventor, Victor Wouk, developed a Hybrid electric and gasoline motorcar that consumed half the fuel that all similar cars of that time consumed. This was in the 1960's, a good thirty years before the launch of Toyota Prius which caught the fancy of energy anxious Americans.

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The bullet shaped Honda Insight was the first electric/gasoline powered hybrid vehicle available in the United States. This two-seater provided the best in fuel economy without compromising performance.

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