Imagine a day when you will no longer be able to drive your vehicle to work or anywhere you would like to go. This could be a possible outcome due to the fact that over the years, thousands of cars have been manufactured and most of them run and depend on fossil fuels. Today these fossil fuels are potentially in danger of running out due to the use of them in the vehicles we travel in every day. Currently cars such as hybrids are being manufactured and are being brought to attention so this problem will be less likely to occur. Hybrid cars are able to run on electricity and if the battery runs out of electricity then it resorts to using gasoline. The use of electricity can help reduce many problems in the environment and for some financially. Hybrid cars are efficient, environment friendly, and can help America not rely on other countries for fossil fuels.
Hybrid cars can have many benefits that make it one of the most efficient types of cars in the automotive industry. As renewable-info states, “The basic definition of hybrid cars would be [..] mostly the combination of an internal combustion engine and one or more electric motors. Such combination enables hybrid cars to have higher fuel efficiency (..) compared to traditional gas-powered cars”(Haluzan). This kind of a feature allows cars like Toyota Prius to drive at fifty one miles per gallon rate compared to an average of twenty four miles per gallon in a gasoline dependent car. This high of a mileage can help a consumer save a lot of money since in this type of an economy gas prices do not seem to go down. According to CNN Money, an average family spends about 364.09 dollars per month. A hybrid car does not use the gasoline unless it runs out of electricity and when it does run out of electricity it would use gasoline. Electricity is much cheaper than gasoline, therefore if a regular person drives about 80 miles a day then a hybrid car may not even have
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