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Imagine the near future. You bend down, stick your head underneath your tailpipe and take good long sip. You could do that with a hydrogen car. These cars are not fully on the market yet. But as people flock to buy hybrid cars, they wonder if just maybe a better car is coming out. The concept of that better car is the hydrogen car. And some people think hybrid cars just can’t compare. Below, you will find out a few things about hydrogen cars.

Hydrogen cars do not generate power by burning anything

Instead of burning a bit of fuel, like hybrid cars too, hydrogen cars burn absolutely nothing. What happens instead is a chemical reaction. Hydrogen and oxygen get converted into energy and their byproduct is water. Hybrid cars certainly can’t do that. And no one is trying to make hybrid cars do anything like that.

Hydrogen in hydrogen cars gives three times the power of gasoline

Not only does hydrogen burn hotter than gasoline, but it also burns faster. That means hydrogen cars can probably go zooming down the highway at unbelievable speeds. They can probably come to a dead stop and start right up to keep up with the traffic in about zero seconds per minute. Boy, talk about the future. Hybrid cars just can’t compete with that kind of efficiency. Hybrid-car batteries certainly don’t burn hotter and faster than hydrogen.

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The hottest new thing to do these days is to somehow get electrified. There are all kinds of ways to do this, like going to parties or just watching a really cool science fiction movie, but you could just buy an electric car.
That’s just what people are doing too. Well, they’re buying electric cars that aren’t totally electric. But these cars are close enough. They’re taking the old Mercedes and tossing it. The next thing they do is lie down in their beds and dream of what other options they might have had. Was it possible for them to buy a car that was completely electric?

Is so, what would be the difference? How does an electric car and a hybrid car compare? Well, there are a few key differences between hybrid and electric cars.

Electric cars are cleaner than hybrid cars

They are cleaner because they don’t give off any emissions. They also have no byproducts that pollute the air. On the other hand, hybrid cars do have some emissions from the fuel that is used to power them.

Electric cars cost less to maintain than hybrid cars

Electric cars have fewer moving parts that wear out. They are more fuel-efficient, and they have better mileage than hybrid cars. This is because electric cars get their power from batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, or the sun. That’s what makes electric cars emission-free. Hybrid cars don’t have the kind of track record that electric cars have in general efficiency. In fact, hybrid cars may just need about the same amount of maintenance that conventional cars do.

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