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Unlike any other vehicle, a hybrid vehicle utilizes two or more sources of power, consumed for its functioning. The term “Hybrid vehicle” is commonly referred to the HEVs (hybrid electric vehicles) that use both internal combustion engine and electric motors. Power sources used in these vehicles include coal, wood, solar…

Electric vehicles are vehicles that run on electricity, by means of chemical energy stored in batteries (Battery Electric Vehicle), or static energy stored on electric double-layer capacitors, or kinetic energy (flywheels). The other sources of energy which may be used in these vehicles include renewable sources such as solar energy,…

Bio fuels are derived from recently dead biological materials, which is said to contain more than eighty per cent of renewable sources of energy. Though the most common method of producing these fuels is through sources derived from photosynthetic plants, they may also be produced from other biological sources (carbon…

Hydrogen, an element known to every individual on this earth and used almost everywhere is the most abundant gas available in this universe. Hydrogen is always found to be mixed with other gases because it is lighter than air. Hydrogen combined with oxygen produces the most important source of living…

The earth produces clean and sustainable energy in the form of heat, this energy is called geothermal energy. It is a renewable source of energy because the heat inside earth is produced continuously by the replenishment of rainfall. The heat is produced 4000 beneath the earth’s surface and as you…

Hydrocarbons (containing natural resources which are not educed from plants or animals) found on the surface of the crust are fossil fuels. Also known as mineral fuel sometimes, these fuels have availed the development of large-scale industries, and has replaced the combustion of wood for heat. These fuels are sources…