The Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Car - Evolution Of The Future Article

	1888 Articles Home \| Automotive Articles \| Gas Savers Articles	Automotive RSS
The Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Car - Evolution of the Future

Did you know that the First Hybrid Car was invented and created by an American, 30 years before the Toyota Prius? And that the Hybrid Car was an American First. Read on for more..

Author: Joey Lee

Article Tools:

Following the rapid advancements of the gasoline engine, the hybrid car has become extremely popular due to its environmentally friendly proposition. A hybrid car is a means of transportation using two power sources; it uses a rechargeable energy storage system found on board and a fuelled power source as the vehicle's driving force. The hybrid car pollutes less and uses less fuel.

Tracking the Hybrid Footprints of the Future Road Warrior
As early as 1899, Ferdinand Porsche have developed and led the way to the very first working hybrid-electric vehicle. Other people followed suit in Ferdinand Porsche's invention. Many people who became interested in the hybrid-vehicle concept and experimented with it. The late twentieth century saw rampant environmental pollution issues which drove car manufacturers back to the drawing boards on Hybrid Cars.

The hybrid technology was mainly utilized in developing diesel-electric submarines during this interim period. The diesel-electric submarines mainly operate very much the same as a hybrid car. However, the submarines main goal was to conserve oxygen rather than spend less fuel and submarines eventually evolved to using nuclear power as a substitute for diesel.

The Hybrid Car – The Actual Account of An American First
An idealistic inventor, Victor Wouk, manufactured a hybrid electric and gas motor vehicle that siphoned fuel at half the amount as practically all the other cars being built then. He built the hybrid car 30 years before the Toyota Prius!

The account about the hybrid car and its inventor, who died in May, 2005, at age 86, is unfamiliar among even the most avid fans of the growing hybrid car association. In terms of hybrid car knowledge, it is in fact America that should have led all other countries. Wouk said that the government program that he developed about hybrids was unknown to everyone.

The father of the world’s first Hybrid Car, Victor Wouk founded and sold two successful electric industrialized companies in the late 1940s and 50s and in 1962 he was approach by Russell Feldman, one of the founders of Motorola, who recognized the pollution from the automobile as one of the biggest problem of the environment and he wanted to discover the possible solutions with regards to this problem. But his experiment did not work much for the possible solution.

Nurturing an idea, Wouk pondered the problem throughout the 60s and ultimately reached a clever and clean solution (no pun intended). He combined the low-emission benefits of an electric car with the power of a gasoline engine to produce a hybrid vehicle. But sadly, Wouk did not get any response to his ideas for creating a hybrid car; and instead became heavily criticized for not believing in a full-electric system.

With the help of his colleague, Charlie Rosen, who shared his belief about hybrid cars, gave him the chance to prove his ideas of creating the hybrid car as one of the solution to the rapid health cost of automobile pollution.

And hence, we see the impressive capabilities of the invention of Wouk - the Hybrid Cars, is now in the mainstream role of helping to generate less fuel consumption and air pollution.

About Author

Joey Lee has 17 years of business & marketing experience in the Insurance & Banking Industry, holds an Executive MBA, and a Platinum Ezine Author. Learn more about Hybrid, cng, lpg, green cars and get the latest environmentally friendly green cars info at http://www.CngCar.org

Article Source: http://www.1888articles.com/author-joey-lee-13225.html

The Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Car - Evolution of the Future