Hybrid vehicle.

摘要

A hybrid vehicle has its energy from a heat motor, for example Otto_, diesel_ or Stirling motor connected to a generator giving electric current to one or more electric motors connected to the driving wheels of the vehicle. The heat engine can be exchanged for fuel cells. For occasionally high loads the vehicle has an accumulator, for example a lead-acid battery operating like a super capacitor to give high currents during short times. The energy available during regenerative braking of the vehicle is normally sufficient to charge the battery, which is heavily cooled at charging as well as discharging.