The Essential Hybrid Car Handbook: A Buyer's Guide

Wonder if now is the time to buy a hybrid car? The Essential Hybrid Car Handbook gives you all the information you need to make a decision. With a thorough comparison of all models on the road today, this one volume covers price, cost-effectiveness, technology, and ecological advantages.To make sure you have the fullest perspective on all your options, Nick Yos also charts the advantages and disadvantages of every viable alternative fuel - ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, natural gas, electricity. And he takes a close look at how the new fuel-sipping minicars stack up against hybrids.

The hybrid car--a more eco-friendly combination of electricity and gasoline--has moved beyond the "green" cult that embraced it and now plays an important role in the plans of every major automaker. The Essential Hybrid Car Handbook
gives readers the information they need to make purchasing decisions, and a whole lot more. Presenting a thorough comparison of all models on the road today, The Essential Hybrid Car Handbook covers price, cost-effectiveness, technology, ecological advantages, their proliferation since the first Honda Insight was sold in 2000, a glimpse at who buys them, and a prediction for their future. This book presents a fascinating and comprehensive look at an entirely new breed of auto that continues to inspire great passion in its owners.