Car features Green cars explained
Building eco cars is easy, fuelling them is less so
Green car technology doesn’t have to be space-age. The biggest environmental gains often come from simple, common-sense means.
But, even more complicated green cars, such as hybrids, are constructed as simply as possible – to be serviceable, reliable and cheap to produce.
What’s more, there are often welcome side effects.
Refined electric cars
Electric cars, for example, are among the most refined models you can buy, as there is no noisy engine to break the silence.
Some hybrids have impressive pull off the line, thanks to the electric motor they use to assist the conventional engine.
And simple stop-start systems make traffic light halts more peaceful.
More complicated green-car technologies are under development, but makers admit building cars that perform keenly and reliably isn’t a problem. Fuelling them, though, may be.
Here, we look at the technology that is – and will be – used to turn our cars greener.
