Citation
(1998), "Hybrid electric vehicle", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 50 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilt.1998.01850bab.013
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1998, MCB UP Limited
Hybrid electric vehicle
Hybrid electric vehicle
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd has developed a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) that combines the clean, zero-emission benefit of an electric vehicle (EV) with the versatile convenience of a gasoline-engine vehicle. It is designed as a series HEV in which the gasoline engine powers a generator to produce energy for running a traction motor that drives the wheels. The vehicle can be operated as a pure electric vehicle with the engine shut off to provide a driving range of approximately 50km. But adoption of the hybrid propulsion system with the engine only used to drive the generator at a low, efficient speed, makes it possible to extend the driving range substantially by approximately twice over that of a gasoline engine vehicle. Exhaust emissions are also dramatically reduced, with CO2 emissions lowered by approximately 50 per cent and NOx, HC and CO levels by approximately 95 per cent. Driving in the EV mode provides the zero-emission performance of an electric vehicle.
An article in New Technology Japan (ISSN 0385-6542, Vol. 25 No. 5, August 1997, p. 31) is available from Global Information on Science and Technology. Tel: + 44 (0) 1664 501 501; Fax: + 44 (0) 1664 501555) by quoting 22169P.