And the Toyota-style hybrid, we have batteries and gasoline engine onboard.
The interior become an acid bath from leaking engine batteries.
The Volt will have a small petrol-engine generator to recharge its batteries on trips of more than 65km.
The car keeps going for another 344 miles as a 63-horsepower gasoline engine kicks in to recharge the batteries.
The Volt is more of a hybrid--it's got a gasoline engine that takes over when the batteries run down after 40 miles.
Every night, it shuts down its engine for eight hours to recharge its batteries with its nuclear generator.
It combines a petrol engine with an electric motor which charges its batteries.
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Conventional hybrids use mainly the gasoline engine for propulsion, drawing on the electric drive and batteries only occasionally to (impressively) improve gasoline efficiency.
Nor does it reflect production costs for the Volt, which has expensive technology including lithium-polymer batteries, and sophisticated electronics, plus an electric motor as well as its gasoline engine, Reuters says.
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The gasoline engine drives the front wheels, but it also sends some current to the batteries.
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He said he believed his liquid air engine would prevail against other storage technologies because it did not rely on potentially scarce materials for batteries.
When the battery is depleted (or when driven at very high speeds), the premium-gas internal combustion engine powers the car, but its fuel mileage suffers from having to shove around 400lbs of batteries.
The Jaguar, with two electric motors and a supercharged 1.6-liter gas engine (the show car version actually uses two microturbines) can manage more than 30 miles on the batteries.
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