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Question: Hybrid Cars? How are they easily renewed?
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Answer #1:
I don't fully understand the question you are asking?? how are they easily renewed??
Answer #2:
With more than 100,000 Honda hybrids on the road, the automaker told Newsweek that fewer than 200 had a battery fail after the warranty expired. That’s a 0.002 likelihood. Toyota says its out-of-warranty battery replacement rate is 0.003 percent—or one out of 40,000 Priuses—for the second generation Prius. Based on this rate, and the fact that very few of the second-generation Priuses have been driven beyond the warranty period, perhaps fewer than a dozen have had battery failures after the warranty expired. Replacement rates for the first generation Prius was closer to 1 percent.
Answer #3:
You have a tough question Betsy. If what was being asked was clear then it would be much easier. So first how I try to understand such questions. Context is always important. If I were to take any kind of car and try to "renew" it, I would think you were talking about a detailed cleaning of the car or maybe a new paint job. But it is about "hybrid cars." I have to search what I might know about them and how they might be different than a "regular" car.
A hybrid is a car that can be run from two power sources. The prius is a parallel hybrid that has a gas engine and an electric motor. The electric motor needs electricity to run and so the car has some batteries in it. It is different from an electric car because it does run only on batteries.
One person answered as if the question was about "renewing" the batteries if they go bad. But an electric car has batteries and they might go bad. So changing the batteries is not unique to a hybrid. I think that the question makes the most sense if we change the word "renewed" to "recharged." Both the electric car and the hybrid car can recharge its batteries with regenerative braking so this is also not unique. The electric car has to be plug in to charge the batteries to full capacity.
But the hybrid car has a gas engine that will generate electricity and charge the batteries if the electricity is not needed to help run the car with the electric motor. So I think the answer is that they are easily recharged by simply driving the car.
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