The Mars group has been developing the 1.5 metre (5 ft) long B4 hybrid engine for over three years.
Adding a hybrid engine costs thousands of dollars, which puts off many consumers.
The Welsh plant employs more than 500 people and became the first factory outside Japan to build Toyota's hybrid engine.
The Toyota Prius saves gasoline, which means that it spews less carbon dioxide into the air than a similar car without a hybrid engine.
Currently, the research effort has pioneered a hybrid engine that is cleaner than a diesel engine and almost twice as efficient as a typical gasoline-powered engine.
One of the shrewdest alt-fuel marketing moves Toyota made early on was to create a sub-brand for its hybrid engine technology, with the Hybrid Synergy Drive badge that appears on every Toyota hybrid vehicle.
Reaction Engines is still a ways behind SpaceX: it has only a fraction of the funding and has yet to build an actual prototype of a hybrid engine, never mind the Skylon, a proposed spaceplane that it would power.
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Even though we were in a hybrid, the gasoline engine kicked on several times and it was nearly impossible to detect an increase in noise from within the cabin.
Some studies indicate it takes more than five times as long to sell a hybrid than a traditional internal combustion engine model, which may explain one of the many reasons why hybrid sales are not growing above 3.5% of the market.
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It will be powered by a combination of a hybrid rocket and a jet engine from a Eurofighter-Typhoon.
These two models will be the first series-produced vehicles specially built with electric engine and electric hybrid drive train.
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The Kin additionally shares the Zune HD's browser engine, a hybrid of IE 7 and 8 that features pinch-to-zoom but has no support for Flash or Silverlight.
And the Toyota-style hybrid, we have batteries and gasoline engine onboard.
Because hybrid and electric vehicles produce less sound than vehicles powered by an ordinary internal combustion engine, pedestrians may not be aware of the presence of a nearby hybrid or electric vehicle.
This is a welcome change from my Lexus hybrid, which shudders slightly when the gasoline engine kicks on.
So some people might be surprised at my latest venture: retrofitting the plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma with a powerful internal combustion engine.
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The C-Max Energi has an EV mode button on the center stack that lets the driver choose between three modes: electric-only driving, normal hybrid mode (which blends electric and gasoline engine power as appropriate) or EV-later mode, which reserves the battery pack power for later use.
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It is a hybrid, powered by both a small internal combustion engine and a battery-driven electric motor.
The Volt is more of a hybrid--it's got a gasoline engine that takes over when the batteries run down after 40 miles.
For an example, in a hybrid car, a radiator works to cool the combustion engine while a second radiator cools the power electronic system that runs the electric motor.
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The SUV features a front-mounted diesel engine paired with an electric motor in a traditional hybrid configuration, plus a second, more powerful electric motor in the rear to drive those wheels in the back.
In addition to the petrol engine and electric motor, the LF-CC hybrid drive system further comprises a generator, a high-performance battery, a power split device which, via planetary reduction gears, combines and re-allocates power from the engine, electric motor and generator according to operational requirements, and a compact power control unit to govern the high speed interaction of the system components.
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On the other hand, the LS600h L has a hybrid powertrain that pairs a 5.0-liter V8 gasoline engine with an electric motor.
Plus, using the six-cylinder gas engine is part of a larger strategy to apply the hybrid powertrain to various models, including the 5 Series and 7 Series.
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Stadler drove out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
Yesterday, AUDI AG chairman Rupert Stadler gave his own keynote address at CES, driving out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
Either way this hybrid organisation serves as the focus, the clearing-house, the engine-room of the European Union.
F1 engine experts have benefited from its extensive expertise with the KERS hybrid concept, which made its debut in the 2009 Formula 1 season.
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Once the battery charge reaches a certain level it operates like a typical hybrid-powered vehicle, with the 2.0-liter gasoline engine doing most of the work.
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