Impacts of Hybrid Vehicles on Environment

Abstract

Now a day many of vehicle manufactures are facing to manufacture a vehicle, which is produce cleaner alternative fuel because most of the gasoline vehicles releases CO2 gases which are more than 99% of the carbon in the fuel is emitted as CO2 when the fuel is burned. During acceleration, these percentage increases and also other gases are emitted like hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. This carbon content may vary by fuel i.e. Diesel vehicle create 10–15% more CO2 per gallon as compared to petrol vehicle. So to overcome these challenges many of the vehicle manufacturing industries diverse towards another power source this is known as hybrid vehicle. Hybrid vehicle uses two or more different power source to move the vehicle. By the theoretically these vehicle produces a cleaner alternative fuel but practically it is not possible. Even hybrid vehicle also creating some pollution issues of their own. While driving hybrid car it required a large amount of energy to produce, so it increases the amount of pollution emitted to air/environment. So in this study we discussed that how hybrid also involves to produce the greenhouse gases to the environment/air.

Keywords: Alternative fuel, CO2 gases, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, greenhouse gases

Cite this Article

Sudhir S. Mathapati, Kamlesh Chavan, Santosh Hiremath. Impacts of Hybrid Vehicles on Environment. Trends in Electrical Engineering. 2018; 8(3): 46–50p.