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hybrid<br />
hybrid<br />
Technology<br />
Electric<br />
No single engine technology<br />
or fuel can deliver an optimal<br />
solution to the <strong>emissions</strong><br />
problem. All have their shortcomings.<br />
Petrol engines emit less nitrogen oxides than diesel<br />
engines, and produce insignificant levels of particulate<br />
matter. Diesel engines, on the other hand,<br />
are more fuel efficient and therefore produce less<br />
carbon dioxide than petrol engines. Among non-petroleum<br />
power sources, electric vehicles, for example,<br />
are clean, but cannot deliver satisfying overall<br />
drive performance, acceptable driving range, and have<br />
to be recharged.<br />
But what if it were possible to combine different types<br />
of power sources and make them work together to enhance<br />
their respective benefits and reduce their obvious<br />
shortcomings?<br />
This leap forward has been made through the creation<br />
of <strong>Toyota</strong>’s hybrid technology, now one of the company’s<br />
core vehicle technologies.<br />
If you drive 25,000 km a year in a Prius,<br />
you will save over 1 tonne more<br />
CO2 when compared to a<br />
similarly-sized diesel car.<br />
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Diesel<br />
or<br />
or<br />
Alternatives<br />
Fuels<br />
Petrol<br />
or<br />
Fuel Cell<br />
Hybrid technology can be applied effectively to improve<br />
the efficiencies of a variety of power trains irrespective<br />
of the type of fuel used (gasoline, diesel, alternative fuels<br />
or fuel cell vehicles).<br />
Hybrids not only deliver lower <strong>emissions</strong> and reduced<br />
fuel consumption, but they are completely silent when<br />
operating electrically and deliver impressive driving performance.<br />
The revolutionary breakthrough achieved by hybrid<br />
technology is the intelligent management of the energy<br />
flows from two different power sources so that each dimension<br />
of driving – acceleration, open road, braking<br />
and stop-and-go – is performed in an optimal way.<br />
This highly innovative solution consists of a petrol engine<br />
designed to minimize fuel consumption, combined<br />
with a <strong>zero</strong>-emission electric motor matched to a nickel<br />
metal hydride electric battery pack to provide additional<br />
power. Both of these power sources work together<br />
under the supervision of a sophisticated power<br />
management controller to deliver maximum overall<br />
driving efficiency.<br />
One tree (1) absorbs around 14kg (2) of CO2<br />
each year. So you'd be doing the annual<br />
workload of a forest with 71 trees.<br />
(1) Measured using Japanese cedar<br />
(2) CO 2 equivalent<br />
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