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What Is a Hybrid Car? Hybrid vehicles have two types of engines working together, a standard gas powered engine, and an electric motor assist powered by a rechargeable nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery pack. In theory, this environmentally friendly combination of gas and electric hybrid technology gives you higher gas mileage, and lower engine exhaust emissions, we'll explain how in a moment. Hybrids are not to be confused with electric vehicles. Hybrid cars are primarily gas powered cars with electrical motor assist. Some hybrid cars are qualified as "Clean Fuel Property" by the IRS. Some hybrid SUVs like the Lexus RX400h are even SULEV rated (Super-Ultra-Low-Emission Vehicle), appealing to the environmentally conscious new car buyer. Many hybrid vehicles are coming to market in the form of hybrid cars, hybrid trucks, and hybrid SUVs. Here are some examples of hybrid autos: Lexus RX 400h hybrid, Lexus GS 450h Hybrid, Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda Accord Hybrid, Honda Insight Hybrid, Toyota Prius, 2007 Toyota Camry hybrid, Toyota Highlander, and Ford Escape Hybrid. How Do You Save Money When Buying New Hybrid Cars? You save money when buying a hybrid the same way that you save money buying a regular car. We recommend that you read our Buying a New Car in 5 Quick Steps article or read our full car buying guide in addition to the information on this page. Most Fuel Efficient Hybrid Cars(city/hwy) Click a model to get a quote from InvoiceDealers on one in your area. 1) Toyota Prius(48/45) 2) Honda Civic Hybrid(40/45) 3) Nissan Altima Hybrid(35/33) 4) Ford Escape Hybrid(34/31) 5) Mercury Mariner Hybrid(34/31) 6) Mazda Tribute Hybrid(34/31) 7) Toyota Camry Hybrid(33/34) 8) Toyota Highlander Hybrid(27/25) 9) Chevy Malibu Hybrid(26/34) 10) Saturn Aura Hybrid(26/34) If using less gas is your main goal you can save money buying a used hybrid or buying a new or used regular car that gets good gas milage. Usedcars.com has created a special section to help you find fuel efficient used cars. Click here to search for fuel efficient used cars in your area. You might find that you can save gas and save a lot of money by buying used. If you decide on a new hybrid car, your goal is to make sure you aren't getting screwed with ridiculous "market adjustments." A "market adjustment" is simply an additional dealer profit sticker added next to MSRP stickers. You still buy your new hybrid car from regular new car dealers. We recommend that you get quotes from sites like InvoiceDealers, Cars.com, Yahoo!Autos, Edmunds.com, MyRide.com and CarsDirect to learn what dealers pay for new cars, and how to save the most money. These sites offer you free new car price quotes and new car dealer invoice prices. Competitive quotes help keep new car dealers in line and make sure you aren't getting screwed by paying more than the fair market price. We recommend that if the hybrid car that you are interested in has a non-hybrid sister model (e.g. Civic vs. Civic Hybrid) or a non-hybrid close competitor (e.g. Prius vs. Ford Focus), you should request a quote for both. Having a quote for the non-hybrid model will show you how much extra you are paying for the hybrid technology. Then you can decide if the gas money savings are worth the extra cost. The other advantage of getting quotes from sites like InvoiceDealers, Cars.com, Yahoo!Autos, Edmunds.com, MyRide.com and CarsDirect is that you will deal with their internet sales manager. In most cases, it is a much more pleasant experience to deal with the internet sales manager than the average salesman out on the lot. There are new hybrid models coming to market all the time. If you live in a big congested city, you are a prime candidate for a hybrid car. In times of peak demand, selling prices could be full MSRP or higher. Starting in 2005, with fuel prices spiraling out of control over the $3 mark, SUV sales plummeted as new car buyers embraced hybrid vehicles, causing waiting lists, and selling prices over MSRP on some hybrid models. Since you aren't likely to save very much on the purchase price on a hybrid car, you should look to other methods of saving money on a new car purchase. Getting your financing online with sites like Up2Drive can save you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars over the course of the loan vs. financing at the dealership. For more information on how to save money on your car financing read our Car Loan Financing Tips and Scams chapter. If you are planning to buy an extended warranty, you can save money by getting one online at sites like Warranty Direct instead of getting overcharged by the dealer. You should read our chapter How To Buy An Auto Extended Warranty to learn how to save the most when buying an extended warranty. How Much Better is Hybrid Car Gas Mileage? In certain driving modes, hybrid electric gas cars offer you no better fuel efficiency than standard cars. In city driving you can expect anywhere from 15% to over 70% improvement in gasoline consumption depending on the hybrid technology. In theory if we all drove hybrids, U.S. gas consumption would drop at least 15%. Also the fuel efficiency of Hybrid cars and SUVs works counter intuitive to what you would expect. Your gas mileage could be more volatile with a hybrid vehicle due to the way it operates in different driving modes, and how much time you spend in each driving mode. In some driving modes, your fuel efficiency can be better, and in some modes your fuel efficiency can offer you no benefit at all. We will give you enough information here to help you decide if a hybrid vehicle is right for you. But first, let's clear the air on the common myths and misconceptions of hybrid vehicles. Stop blaming the President, stop blaming the oil companies and Congress about oil prices! Everyone wants to blame everyone else for their problems. Don't blame the President or oil companies for ultra high gasoline prices. If you want to blame someone, go into the bathroom and point into the mirror, because it's your fault! It's my fault, it's everyone's fault. In 2007 China was in record growth mode, they are using 60% of the world's supply of construction cranes, and their appetite for oil has not waned. Oil is not alone, lumber and drywall and cement have shot up because of the Chinese demand. Bush haters like to blame President Bush. But remember, oil has risen in price under every single president. Our population growth has shot up over 50 million since 1980. That's a lot more houses built and cars being driven, so the demand is much more than 2 decades ago. Sure oil companies took advantage of us and charged a bit more in 2005, making record profits, that's called capitalism dudes, instead of complaining about their record profits, buy their stock and join in on the profit. You sell your camera on eBay and it bids way up because the demand is there to support it. Is that someone's fault? Does that mean you are a greedy camera seller? But think about this, oil companies would not have had a leg to stand on with pricing if the demand for fuel from you and I were not so great. We all drive around in gas guzzling SUVs. We are treading water, like salmon going upstream, with respect to our oil consumption versus production. We consume many multiples of oil now compared to 1976, yet that was the last year we built a refinery in the United States.

Every time someone tries to build a refinery, some special interest group blocks it in court and wins. OPEC countries have refineries and drilling rigs all over the place, and they are all rich and happy. We are not allowed to build any more refineries which would increase our own oil supply and lower the price, so, so we are not rich and happy, we are paying more for oil, and funding our own demise. OPEC has their boot on our throat, and gee, isn't Iran part of OPEC? Great, so that means that while we are pumping gas into our tanks, we are also funding future terrorist attacks. We need to not only reduce our oil consumption, but switch modes to power sources other than oil to eliminate our dependency on other countries. Hybrid cars are starting points, not as efficient as we'd like, but they will lead to future technologies like cellulose and prairie grass, and other as yet created technologies. I admire what UPS does with their trucks, they try not to make any left hand turns at red lights, because the idle time waiting at the light burns up gas. One last thing. What are YOU doing to reduce your carbon footprint, and reduce our dependency on foreign oil? If you have not converted all your home lighting over to energy efficient CFL light bulbs yet, then you have absolutely no justifiable reason to complain. CFLs draw 25% of the energy of a standard light bulb, a technology which is on its way out the door anyway. Switch all your Christmas lights to LEDs, which draw 20% of the current of standard light bulbs. All of us chipping in as much as we can will reduce the demand for oil. Have energy audits performed on your house and fix the areas where you are leaking heat or air conditioning.

The U.S. used 3 times as much oil in 2005 as it did in 1995
According to the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration, oil company refining costs and profits only account for about 20% of the price of your gallon of gas. But guess what folks, federal and state taxes are also 20% of your gas price, and counties add even more on top of that, my county adds 18 cents per gallon, so if you want to point fingers and get angry at the oil companies, then you better start screaming at your state and local county for over taxing you. But by far the largest component of the price you pay per gallon of gas is the raw crude oil, which makes up by the largest price component of your gallon of gas at 53% or more. So we have to reduce our demand for foreign oil period. No way around it. As long as demand is high, crude oil will be high, just like when a new Play Station or iPhone or iPod comes out, demand is high, and people pay $1000 for them on eBay until demand dies down.

Why Oil Prices Have Risen So High In Recent Years

• Plain and simple, more demand for oil than supply
• Many millions more new houses and gas guzzling SUVs on the road than there were ten years ago, all adds up
• China and Russia are huge developing countries with huge appetites for oil, cement, lumber, and drywall
• We are traveling more, taking more packed flights to more new hotels that need oil to operate
• People live farther from work these days thanks to lower housing affordability, and take 2 hour commutes
• There's always problems in Nigeria or Middle East affecting refinery outputs
• U.S. refineries are at full capacity, they go offline all the time, and they can't build any more refineries
• OPEC purposely limits production every year to keep supply below demand and prices up
• US has not built a single refinery since 1976, yet our demand for oil is 3 times what it was in 1995

Think about it, in 1994, there were very few SUVs on the market. Remember the 70's? Riding bikes to work, carpooling? Hardly anyone does that anymore. China's insatiable demand for oil, cement, and lumber had not kicked in yet. The population was a lot lower in the 1970s, and there were fewer houses requiring electricity and heating oil. So the fault here lies with you and I much more than the President or Congress oil companies. China alone was the root cause of the largest increases in lumber and cement the last 2 years. All of us need to do what we can to conserve oil, not just with our cars, but in conservation and recycling of other resources we use that depend on oil. We need to attack this from multiple angles. Hybrid vehicles are one of many steps that we should be implementing. Hybrid cars CLAIM a 40% to 60% improvement in fuel efficiency for city driving. Just think if all of us drove hybrid cars, what that would do to the demand for gasoline. It does not take much of a drop in demand for oil at all to tip the scales and cause prices to drop.

Hybrid Myths:

I have assembled here some common myths that you might hear from your drunk Monday morning quarterback neighbor about hybrid vehicles.

Hybrid Car Myth #1: Hybrid cars need to be plugged in to charge them. You'll hear this one a lot. It is an old wives tale repeated by people who have no idea what they are talking about. Maybe they are thinking of the GM EV1, an all electric car that GM offered for lease only in the late 1990s. A new breed of "plug-in" hybrids like the Chevy Volt are coming soon but those will also have a gasoline engine to power the car when the battery runs out.

Hybrid Car Myth #2: Hybrid cars get over 70 MPG! Again, this is false, most hybrids have EPA mile per gallon city ESTIMATES in the 30's to 50's best case. With my driving habits, I can easily wipe out all the gains a Hybrid car gives you.

Hybrid Car Myth #3: The Hybrid's rechargeable battery only lasts for 2 years! Thank you for playing! Unlike standard 12 V lead acid car batteries, the eco-friendly rechargeable NiMH hybrid batteries usually come with 8 year warranties, and are designed to last that long too.

Hybrid Car Myth #4: If I run out of gas, I can keep driving on the electric motor! Nice try. Hybrid cars rely on the gas engine most of the time, and their electric motors MIGHT function for a short time if you run out of gas, but unless the gas engine is on and charging your hybrid electric battery, it will totally discharge. This could result in a catastrophic loss of your hybrid battery. But on the flip side, if your electric motor quits working, your gas motor will run on its own and still allow you to drive the car as a normal car. If your hybrid runs out of gas, and you really want to be foolish enough to try driving it anyway, call me first so I can come shoot video to send into MTV's Jackass.

Hybrid Vehicle Technology: Theory Of Operation Through 5 Driving Modes

Welcome to Hybrid theory 101. Hybrid cars operate differently depending on your current driving modes. We can divide your typical driving into 5 different modes. Your hybrid car acts differently in each of these 5 driving modes, in some modes the electric motor is operating, and some modes the gasoline engine is operating, and sometimes both are operating. Knowing how your hybrid vehicle operates under each mode is crucial to getting the most gas mileage, and minimizing emissions output. Of course the car makers don't tell you this, they just make it sound like you always get super high gas mileage like a Bingo free spot, no matter how you drive, but that may not be the case. Here are the 5 hybrid vehicle driving modes and their theory of operation:

1) Full Stop: At a full stop, like at a red traffic light or stop sign, the gas engine usually shuts off to eliminate idling, and reduce emissions. The electric motor is now ready to propel the car when push on the gas pedal. This is usually pretty seamless, and you might not even notice without seeing it on the power monitor indicator. In crowded cities with lots of stop and go traffic like the opening scene of Office Space, this can save you a lot of fuel.

2) Low Speed/Initial acceleration from a stop: First of all, I should point out that being a scofflaw maniac driver, I never drive in this mode. Starting from a stop, and driving in a normal sane, just-like-your-grandmother acceleration from the stop line, the electric motor usually propels your car, powered by the electric motor's battery pack. This type of downtown stop and go traffic is where you save the most fuel with hybrids, counter intuitive to normal gas engines, where you burn the most fuel. The electric motor works up until about 15 MPH without any help from the gas engine. The gas engine turns on and off as needed while you drive. I have zero patience for losers at stoplights. If you have a life to live and a lead foot like me, your hybrid SUV will be less efficient in this mode, because flooring the accelerator will demand extra power, causing the gas engine to kick in. This eliminates the fuel savings potential offered to you by your electric motor during this driving mode. Also, if you spend all day in stop and go traffic, the constantly used electric motor battery may discharge quicker, causing the gas engine to turn back on to charge the battery. So your fuel economy savings for hybrids may really only benefit you in a much more narrower range of operating conditions than the car makers will admit. Moral of the story: If you don't drive your hybrid car like you are supposed to, don't expect to get the advertised fuel economy.

3) Heavy Acceleration: This is my personal favorite mode of operation. This mode quickly puts a lot of forward distance between you and the aforementioned losers at stoplights, stuck there during indecision attacks when the light turns green. Here your power comes from both the gas engine, AND the high torque electric motor, typically through some type of power splitting device. During this mode, you probably will not be saving as much fuel as you expect from all the advertising.

4) Highway Driving: This is where the fuel efficiency of Hybrid cars and SUVs works counter intuitive to what you would expect. The reason is that in this driving mode, the car is typically powered only by the gas engine, which may be charging your electric motor battery pack at the same time. So the electric motor is not typically contributing during highway driving, meaning your hybrid vehicle is just another gas guzzling, car at highway speeds. Some hybrids get slightly better highway mileage than the non-hybrid counterpart because they are able to use a smaller, more efficient gasoline engine since the electric motor can assist for passing. Also, many hybrids have continuously variable transmissions that allows the engine to operate at optimal RPM. If you are a highway commuter that drives an hour to work each way on the open highway with no stop and go traffic, a hybrid vehicle will probably offer you little fuel savings.

5) Braking, Coasting and Deceleration: When you brake gently or coast, forward kinetic energy that in standard car normally gets dissipated as heat is instead converted to electric energy. This is accomplished by using the old reliable spinning electrical motor in it's other role, now as a generator to charge the battery pack. This is why hybrid cars never need to be plugged in, despite old wives tales you might hear. This process of charging the battery is known as regenerative braking. Keep in mind that hard braking requires the normal friction brakes so to get the best fuel efficiency you should brake smoothly.

6) Backing Up: Ok I lied, there's a sixth mode, but who really counts going in reverse as a driving mode? In reverse the gas engine does not operate, the electric motor does all the work. Not that this will add huge amounts of fuel savings for you. I drive about 50 feet max in reverse on a daily basis. Now maybe if you're Burt Reynolds...

How To Get Free Hybrid Car Price Quotes
Referral services like InvoiceDealers, Cars.com, Yahoo!Autos, Edmunds.com, MyRide.com and CarsDirect provide a discount selling price through a network of 5000+ dealers, no tricks, no gimmicks. Member dealers get referrals from free online request forms that car buyers submit, so they give a better price. These services can get you a lower price when they hook you up with a non-commissioned fleet or internet manager.

TIP: When you visit these online quote services to fill out the request for your free quotes, remember to enter your full email address properly! If your email address is CarBuyer@aol.com, don't just enter "CarBuyer", you must add the full email address. They need to be able to email your dealer contact information to you.

Quotes are different for each free car buying service, so get a consensus. Your free quotes will come from your local dealer and you can purchase the car from the dealer for the quoted price if the price is right. Hard to get cars might not have a large discount. Spend a few minutes now getting your quotes, save a few thousand dollars later. Your ability to negotiate the best price with the dealer depends on your quotes from these sources. Put free car buying quotes in "The Folder" that you bring to the dealer.

InvoiceDealers has the top deal closing rate of free online car buying services. Dealers sell you a new car, at a hassle free lowest price at or near invoice price. They give you quick up front price quotes at up to 2 of your local dealers. Your quote takes seconds. Lots of good deals reported with Honda, Toyota, Ford, Chevy. You still get rebates. Click Here To Get A Free Price Quote From InvoiceDealers

Yahoo!Autos gives you free, no-obligation new car quotes from up to 3 local car dealers. Having a competitive price quote in hand will give you the advantage before you set foot on the lot. You'll have the information you need to get a good deal. This service is totally free, with no obligation to buy. Click Here To Get A Free Price Quote From Yahoo!Autos

Cars.com gives you free, no-obligation new car quotes from up to 3 local car dealers. You choose your new car model, style, colors and options. Getting quotes from multiple dealers pressures dealers to give you a discount. Click Here To Get A Free Price Quote from Cars.com

Now that you have your free new car price quotes from the above sites, which site had the cheapest price for your new car? We never know, it's different for each car. That's why you need to check all the online sites for a consensus of what you should be paying for your new car.

Pros and Cons Of Owning Hybrid Cars

Pros Of Owning Hybrid Cars:

• Hybrid vehicles run cleaner. Toyota claims their cars are UP TO 80% cleaner than conventional gas engines
• Hybrid cars are environmentally friendlier than conventional gas engine cars, and have lower emissions
• You typically get 8 year warranties on the hybrid vehicle system
• Tax deductions/credits for "Clean Fuel Property". In 2006 tax credit is a dollar for dollar tax reduction
• If enough people drive hybrids responsibly, our oil consumption will drop, causing OPEC to lower prices, giving you more spending cash
• If most of your driving is stop and go city traffic at slow speeds, you'll see a big benefit to owning a hybrid
• In some states, driving a hybrid vehicle earns you the perk of being a single occupant vehicle in the HOV lane, no more tickets! Yeah, now we're talking!

Cons Of Owning Hybrid Cars:

• If most of your driving is on open highway at high speeds, you'll see little benefit to owning a hybrid
• Some high demand hybrids have waiting lists and often sell for premiums over window sticker price
• Hybrid cars and Hybrid SUVs can cost a few thousand more than their conventional gas engine counterparts
• Gas savings can take years to recoup the additional cost of buying a hybrid vehicle
• You will probably not achieve the claimed EPA fuel economy estimates for hybrid cars or conventional gas cars for that matter

EPA Fuel Economy Estimates For Hybrid Cars

You probably will not achieve the claimed EPA fuel economy estimates because they may not reflect real world driving conditions, more specifically, my driving conditions. EPA estimates assume slow acceleration on level roads, and slower than normal highway driving. Yeah right. Other factors contribute to you falling short of the EPA glory such as schlepping lots of cargo across town on short trips over hilly terrain with the A/C on in July. Notice in the table below how hybrid cars get more mileage in the city than on the highway, the opposite of gas only cars. This is because in city driving the electric motor runs more and the gas engine runs less.

Hybrid Vehicle Tax Credits and Deductions:

First of all, if you are subject to Alternative Minimum Tax, you can't take advantage of tax credits for your hybrid car or truck. Sorry dude, it stinks being rich. For the tax year 2005 the IRS gave you a $2000 tax deduction, where you just added the allowable deduction in with your other itemized deductions. Since this was only a deduction, you could only get back 60% to 70% of the $2000. But in 2006, the IRS changed it from a deduction to an actual dollar for dollar tax credit. In Publication 535 Section 12 they instructed you to simply write in the tax credit amount on line 35 of your Form 1040, and write the words "Clean Fuel" on the dotted line next to it. Of course you should always check the latest hybrid news and tax considerations on the IRS site and consult your CPA, do not use our site as tax advice.

Nitrogen Tire Inflation

Let's talk about Nitrogen Tire inflation. What is Nitrogen, and why do experts claim it's better to have Nitrogen filled tires than air filled tires? Nitrogen is a dry inert gas, while oxygen has moisture from humidity. Oxygen molecules are much smaller than nitrogen molecules, so oxygen sneaks out of your valve stems at a much faster rate than Nitrogen gas. Your tires will hold Nitrogen gas longer than standard air, giving you more stable tire pressure over a longer time. Manufacturers don't really like regular air in your tires because the moisture expands and shrinks with temperature and humidity, so your tire pressure is never constant using just air. Even when you switch to Nitrogen, the Nitrogen will leak out eventually, but not as quick as regular air. You might ask then, since air is made of about 21% Oxygen, and about 77% Nitrogen already, why not just use air? Won't I still get the benefits of Nitrogen? Again, the experts claim that this 21% portion that has oxygen will leak out faster and is not as stable as 100% pure Nitrogen. Ideally tire makers want your tires remain at constant pressure. But this does not happen in the real world. Remember the Ford Explorer rollover controversy a few years ago? Tires would blow up on hot days and Explorers would flip over. Some of these tires might not have failed had they been using Nitrogen, and the tire pressure would have been more stable, and the tires would not have all that mechanical stress from constant expansion and contraction. Some people don't believe there is an advantage to using Nitrogen, claiming there is not much difference between air and Nitrogen. Some tire shops like to charge you $5 to $50 for Nitrogen. This is a scam, and gouging in my opinion. Be smart. Don't lose your advantage from Nitrogen by paying for it. Costco charges no extra money for Nitrogen, that is all they use now.

How does Nitrogen make your life better?

Because you have more stable tire inflation, you'll get better gas mileage, your Nitrogen filled tires will last longer, and you'll have better vehicle handling. The vehicle will handle better because the tire pressure will always be constant at the manufacturer's recommended inflation level, just like the car maker wants it to be. You will be driving in the recommended inflation level all the time. Usually when you buy tires you can request Nitrogen and they use green caps on your valve stems to indicate that you have Nitrogen filled tires.

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