A Brief Study on Hybrid Electric Vehicles

The new era has been visualizing a significant growth in the usage of automobiles, consequently the requirement of fuels to run them has also increased. This caused a drastic shift in the pollution levels and also caused the prices of these fuels to fluctuate at a high rate. This caused the automobile engineers to design the hybrid vehicles. The hybrid vehicles have the characteristics of both conventional internal combustion engines that use fuel as source of energy and also electric motors that move the car. In broader sense the hybrid vehicles are capable of working by fuel and also electrical energy that is stored in the batteries of the vehicle. The design of hybrid vehicles has transformed the automobile industry. The hybrid vehicles are being standardized to achieve the same standards to that of non-hybrid vehicles to have a good fuel efficiency. The other non-conventional vehicles that run on electricity have few disadvantages like imperfect and limited charging points which can be overcame by hybrid vehicles. The authorities have also been implementing a separate infrastructure for the mobility of hybrid vehicles in later days. The hybrid vehicles are categorized based on the energy converters being implemented in the vehicles. In this paper, the authors have explained about the various hybrid vehicles, types and applications of hybrid vehicles.