Demand for hybrid cars in Malaysia
A hybrid car is actually a car that runs in two fuel sources. Differentiation a hybrid car from a conventional car is that a hybrid car contains two engines which are traditional gasoline engine and an electric motor and batteries. The concept of the two engines is the car uses a traditional gasoline engine, as well as electricity derived from special batteries to drive the car. The batteries of the hybrid car do not need to be plugged in to recharge like an electric car. As it will charged while the car running or while the car is braking. The two engines are work together to cut down fuel consumption. It is able to cut down the fuel usage by more than half with using this technology.
Hybrid cars are still not so popular before year 1997. It had aware by the consumers only after Japan released Toyota Prius and Honda Insight in 1997 and brought it to United States (US) in 1999.
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Toyota Prius, a hybrid vehicle. Museum of Toyota o...Toyota introduced the first hybrid car and the top-ranked sales of hybrid cars are Toyota Prius which sold in over 70 religions and had sales of more than 2 million units to the date of September 2010.
US leading the largest market of hybrid cars in the world, they have started its hybrid cars market since 1999. (Christie Schweinsberg, 2011). California is the biggest hybrid cars market in US (Source: Detroit News, 2011).
However, hybrid cars have only been in Malaysia market for a very short period of time. Hybrid cars are not so popular in current stage, but are in a growing trends and beginning to expand. Since the fuel price is keep rising and it is no...