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Motoring By James Baggott History’s Most Famous Hybrids Hybrids have been around since just after the Big Bang, and since then matter has been mingling, bonding, binding and fusing into hybrids – at first to form atoms, then elements and compounds and the building blocks of life as we know it. Hybrids are therefore as old as time itself. When you think of hybrids today you’re more likely to picture a car than a chemical reaction, but the principle is the same. Sometimes, two things simply work better together – petrol and electricity, for example, or gin and tonic. Hybrids are all around us, and even inside us – humans are 60 per cent water, itself a hybrid. Hybrids are found from farmer’s fields to far-flung forests, from test tubes to test tracks. And some have even changed the world… CENTAUR Possibly the most famous of mythological beasts, these half-human, half-horse hybrids were said to worship the God of Wine. They were dreamed up by the Ancient Greeks, probably as a reaction to their first encounters with nomads on horseback. PIZZLY BEAR Found in zoos since the Eighties, polar bears and grizzlies rarely meet in the wild, let alone produce crossbreed cubs. Few believed that pizzly bears existed at all outside of captivity until one was shot in 2006. DNA tests confirmed it was a hybrid: white like a polar bear but with a grizzly’s face, along with brown paws and big claws. One theory is that climate change is causing their habitats to overlap. TOYOTA PRIUS Believe it or not it’s over 20 years since Toyota launched the Prius, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid vehicle and one of the most important cars of all time, up there with the Ford Model T, the original Mini and the McLaren F1. When it first came along, even the iPhone was still ten years away, and few thought that – one day – even supercars would be fuelled by a mixture of petrol and batteries. Today, a world without hybrids seems 80 Log into www.cr5.co.uk your local community website! unthinkable, and the Prius, now in its fourth generation, has sold over four million units. BLOODHOUND SSC Hybrid cars are as much about performance as efficiency, but even so, Bloodhound SSC, the 1,000mph car, takes things to a whole new level by combining a jet engine – the sort you’d find in a Eurofighter Typhoon – with a cluster of rockets. In all, it has about 135,000 thrust horsepower, which is more than eight times the power of all the cars on the F1 grid combined. Even the fuel is pumped by a supercharged, 550bhp V8. Just as well when you consider it’ll need 40 litres of rocket oxidiser for every second of its top speed run in South Africa next year. WATER Compounds (chemical hybrids of two or more elements) are all around us, and water is the most abundant. The world contains around 1,260 trillion million litres of the stuff, which if spread evenly over the Earth’s surface would have a depth of 2,800 metres. Only 2.5% of this water is fresh water, and in a 100-year period, a single water molecule spends 98 years in the sea, 20 months locked away as ice, about two weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere. CHIMERA EMBRYO In genetics, a chimera is a hybrid organism with cells from two different species. In this case those species
are pigs and people, after scientists injected human cells into an animal embryo. It’s controversial, but by editing animal embryos you could use them to host human organs for vital transplant operations. So rather than waiting for a donor, you instead grow a custom organ inside an animal. PUGGLE Humans have been matchmaking dogs for centuries. But while some are bred for useful reasons like fetching pheasants or sniffing out stowaways, others are designed to fit in a handbag. Take the Puggle, for example, the comedy offspring of a Beagle and a Pug. The list of top designer dogs includes labradoodles, horgis, cockapoos and schnoodles. TREE OF 40 FRUIT The Tree of 40 Fruit is an arboreal artwork created by American art professor Sam Van Aken, who grafts buds from various fruit trees onto a single ‘stock’ tree. Over several years the stock tree eventually grows branches from its different donors, each bearing a unique fruit, including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries. So far he’s planted 16 of these hybrid trees in seven US states, which in springtime blossom pink, crimson and white. LEXUS LS500h In the not-too-distant future, every car will feature hybrid or electric technology. Already however, carmakers such as Lexus and Toyota have a hybrid-electric version of almost every model in their showroom. In fact, 99 per cent of Lexus’s UK sales are petrol-electric hybrids, such as the new LS500h, an executive saloon with limousine-like luxury – soothing and quiet when you need it to be, but also capable of proper performance with very low emissions. All this thanks to the world’s first multi-stage hybrid system, featuring a 3.5-litre V6 working together with clever electric motors. The best of both worlds? That’s what hybrids are all about, after all. Tel: 020 8660 2174 | Visit: www.communitech.tv Audio & Visual Systems Internet & Wifi Solutions CCTV, Alarms, Access Security Clever Home Automation BE Entertained GET Connected FEEL Secure THINK Smart Publication To advertise <strong>CR5</strong> Magazine call Lucy on 01737 557888 or 07703 209292 81
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