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Drive System Of Lexus Hybrid Cars

Article Category: Automotive

The year 2005 was a record-breaking season, as four sequential hurricanes made more than a hundred billion dollars in damage. In 2008, the city of Adelaide in South Australia experienced a heatwave--during autumn. Global warming is becoming a reality harder to deny with each passing day, and this has compelled buyers everywhere to make more environment-friendly choices. The people at Lexus have noticed.

Prominent in the whole world for its line of luxury cars, engineers at Lexus have created a line of cars that will run on the Lexus Hybrid Drive system. Known as a gas-electric hybrid type, these vehicles operate on a dual-power source mechanism. This characteristic of the Lexus Hybrid Drive system works on the gasoline engine and the electric drive motor at the same time. This motor supplements the energy from the engine, leading to higher torque and greater power. It efficiently copies the performance of bigger, well-developed engines without the associated fuel usage.

Instantly, the Lexus Hybrid Drive is developed for efficiency—it also comprises a generator that converts any superfluous energy yielded by the gasoline engine into electricity that is then stored by the battery; this high-output battery itself comprises of nickel-metal hydride and it has been designed to last for 100,000 miles. The generator works in tandem with Lexus' planetary gear set, a combination of gears that control the equal distribution of energy between the engine and the motor. Also, the system incorporates regenerative braking.

As it is depicted by the name, this mechanism captures the kinetic energy produced when brakes are applied, and it changes that into electrical energy, which consequently charges the battery. Lexus Hybrids also attributes electronically controlled continually variable transmission (ECVT for short) that differs from other vehicles' transmission mechanisms as ECVT allows a seemingly unbounded number of gear combinations. Therefore in this way the Lexus Hybrid Drive maximises efficiency of the power train.

The whole of the Lexus Hybrid Drive system is scrutinized and handled by the Electronic Control Unit (ECU), which keep a check on the driving conditions and manages the car's fuel utilization & power flow accordingly. It minimises wastage whilst receiving the maximum benefit out of the Hybrid Drive. The final touch to this system is the energy monitor, which offers the driver with required information about the vehicle's power flow and efficiency at a glance, using an intuitively simple graphical format.

The Lexus Hybrid Drive system has faced comparisons with Toyota's revolutionary Prius hybrid vehicle and its drive system. Although, Lexus provides greater power than its hybrid peers and faster acceleration. It also differs from that of its main competitor, Honda. In that, it uses a gasoline engine with greater capacity and it can boast of greater horsepower as well as higher torque. A major fuel-saving property exhibited by the Lexus Hybrid Drive system is its ability to turn off completely the gasoline engine, on the other hand the Honda Insight hybrid's system can only disable it.

This gives Lexus a marketing edge over Honda, an edge made all the more important because it is a new entrant to the hybrid car market. The Lexus Hybrid Drive system has its advantages as well as its drawbacks. It is a compromise between luxury and sustainability; true to the spirit of Lexus, the system supports additional properties to make the driving experience a nice one while insuring it at the same time as an environment-friendly activity. Its parts provide more horsepower combined with better distribution and that is why Lexus hybrids can accelerate from zero faster than other available cars. It also offers an electricity-only (EV) mode on which the car utilises only the power stored in the battery, producing zero greenhouse gas emissions and burning no fuel whatsoever.

Regenerative braking makes it an excellent choice for driving within the city as it has been designed to improve the efficiency of stop-and-start driving, an inevitability in urban areas; as the energy is supplied back to it, this also helps increase the life of the battery. The Lexus Hybrid Drive system is therefore a durable and long-lasting one. The good news, given that Lexus Hybrids comes with a much higher price tag than other existing hybrids, The EV mode is limited as it can only go for a few miles as low speeds, but advance technology does not support the availability of any full hybrid-only gasoline-independent vehicles to the general public. The Lexus Hybrid Drive behind it all is a promising technology that is bound to get even better with time because as they believe at Lexus, "The Pursuit of Perfection" is the goal.

Keywords: Lexus LS 600h, Lexus GS, Lexus RX 450h, Hybrid Cars, Luxury Convertible,

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