subject: Eco-friendly cars : Towards a ‘greener' automobile industry [print this page] Eco-friendly cars : Towards a greener' automobile industry
Eco-friendly vehicles have gradually begun to revolutionize the automobile sector. Car manufacturers are constantly exploring the myriad possibilities to expand the market by offering cars that consumers will seek to buy. Eco-friendly cars are comparatively cheaper and help in significantly reducing fuel emissions.
These are the four main types of Eco-friendly cars. Before you plan to purchase an Eco-friendly car, it is quite important to make a thorough and comprehensive research on the suitability of the car and to take the following factors into consideration: the best deal on price, finance repayments, road fund license, car insurance and fuel options.
Hybrid cars
Hybrid cars operate by storing the energy created during the application of brakes and then utilizing it when the vehicle is in motion. The best advantages of hybrid cars are that they have a very high mileage and the battery lasts for a longer time. However, their cost is significantly high in comparison to their counterparts.
Bio Diesel cars
Bio Diesel cars operate on a blend of diesel fuel and vegetable oil, or they can function on just diesel. Biodiesel cars have more mileage than normal diesel cars. However, the cost of biodiesel fuel is extremely high compared to petroleum spirit and normal diesel. As Bio-diesel cars use a combination of vegetable oil and diesel as fuel, it would be slightly difficult to operate them in cold weather.
Ethanol cars
Ethanol cars operate on a fuel made from corn, barley or wheat. One of the commonly used fuel combinations in Ethanol cars is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline or petrol. Ethanol cars helps in significantly reducing fuel emissions and is comparatively cost-effective.
Electric cars
Electric cars function only on electric power. They have large batteries and are simply plugged in for recharging. One of the biggest difficulties of operating an electric car is that it could take as long as 10 hours to recharge dead batteries.
Hydrogen cars
A hydrogen-powered car makes use of either combustion or electrochemical conversion to transform chemical energy from hydrogen into mechanical energy to power the car.
