INTRODUCTION
The increased attention to environmental concerns and the alarming diminish of the oil reserve have commanded invention of new vehicles in our road transport system. Therefore, the oil and environmental future demands have prompted that the solution with the greatest potential is hybrid vehicles. The hybrid vehicles are those kinds of vehicles that use two or more distinct power source in making the vehicle move.
SIGNIFICANCE
The expectation that there will be a triplicating number of the global light-duty car fleet and a doubling emissions level of CO2, has prompted the significance of addressing concern on fuel efficiency in our road transport as it rises in the national and global contexts, on the platforms of energy and climate change agendas (Demirdoven and John 219). Moreover, the projections for the growth of road transport and car ownership in the next decades has preempted the dominance of road transport, in spite of the fact that there is rapid growth in aviation and shipping (Bitsche and Guenter 14). Therefore, hybridization of major vehicle markets would bring enormous fuel economy improvements within the road transport as a requirement to stabilize and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, which come from the transport sector as the traffic volume is projected to increase in future.
CONCLUSION
The hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) technology for both the heavy and light duty applications is currently available and has demonstrated undoubted standards in reducing fuel consumption and in tail-pipe emissions more effectively than the other low emission technologies which are available. Facilitating hybridization of vehicle fleets across the various economies would enable incentives and policies structures to serve towards lowering both CO2 and conventional emission, thereby creating improvement on energy security, public health, and reduction in fuels costs. However, the multiple energy sources of a hybrid car have led to not only increased drivetrain flexibility but also augmented control complexity.
Works cited
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Demirdöven, Nurettin, and John Deutch. "Hybrid cars now, fuel cell cars later." Science 305.5686 (2004): 974-976.
