Cars of the future: Hybrid cars and Water4Gas technology by Greg OK

People may be getting somewhat frustrated with the cars they own as they watch the fuel prices grow. More and more people turn to alternatives. Some prefer to leave the car at home and walk home or catch public transport.

There are people, however, who need their car for work, such as self employed. They are amongst those people who consider selling their ordinary petrol-fuelled cars and buying a new kind of car - a hybrid - that can cut their fuel bill in half. They can enable you to drive up to 60 miles per gallon, or 25 kilometers per liter.

Hybrid cars also produce a lot less pollutants than conventional vehicles. What this means is that the apart from the fuel consumption reduction, you will also decrease the pollution levels that are poisoning the environment. Everyone gets the benefit with hybrid cars.

How do hybrid cars work? Should you be considering getting one?

Firstly, they can be quite expensive. But when you count in all the savings on petrol that you will get over the life of the car, conventional cars turn out to be much more expensive.

Owners of hybrid cars will also enjoy the savings from tax breaks given by most governments nowadays to hybrid car owners. What this means is that you can save even more money.

The concept of a hybrid car is not difficult - hybrid cars combine electricity, the cleanest energy source available, and the internal combustions engine used in normal cars.

So, hybrid cars use both electricity and petrol energy to run the. When you start the car and it is in idle more, the hybrid car shuts off the gasoline engine and just keeps running on electricity. During this time, the car is running purely on electricity. That's why hybrid cars are a lot quieter than conventional cars. And that is another reason why they conserve energy. When you step on the accelerator, the conventional petrol engine will start up automatically.

There is also a type of hybrid cars that run purely on electricity, and they are very useful if you are using the car for local travels. The disadvantage, however, is that those cars have a very low range. So for long travels, you will probably need to still put petrol in those cars.

These days, most hybrid cars use kinetic energy to recharge the battery, so you don't even need to plug it in to recharge. When the car is braking, it is using the excess energy to recharge the battery.

A typical hybrid car consists of a battery for energy storage, a generator, the conventional petrol engine, a fuel tank and the electric engine.

There is another technology that you may want to consider if at this stage you cannot afford a hybrid car. It is called a Water4Gas Kit. It utilizes the hydrogen fuel technology, and can be installed at home by any car enthusiast. A container under the hood of your car will be filled with distilled water which is then converted by the device into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen is then burnt along with the conventional petrol which can result in savings of petrol.

Now that you know how hybrid cars work, you now see how beneficial it can be if you are driving one. You will not only save a lot of money from fuel consumption, but you will also help save the environment by emitting far lower toxic fumes than conventional cars.

About the Author

Greg OK operates a website dedicated to the review of the Water4Gas technology: http://www.water4gasripoff.com