Currently, Honda and Toyota have the technology that might give you the answer to all of these needs. It's the hybrid car , and both manufacturers have begun selling their versions in the United States. You're probably aware of hybrid cars because they've been in the news lately. In fact, most automobile manufacturers have announced plans to manufacture their own versions. If you would like to know the answers to these questions, then this edition of How Stuff Works will help you to understand how this amazing technology works.
Any vehicle is hybrid when it combines two or more sources of power .
In fact, many people have probably owned a hybrid vehicle at some point. Hybrid vehicles are all around us. Most of the locomotives we see pulling trains are diesel-electric hybrids . Giant mining trucks are often diesel-electric hybrids. Any vehicle that combines two or more sources of power that can directly or indirectly provide propulsion power is a hybrid.