smart hybrid Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:20:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Smart Fortwo MHD: Hybrid Car Without a Battery https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smart-fortwo-mhd-hybrid-car-without-battery-20080720/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smart-fortwo-mhd-hybrid-car-without-battery-20080720/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:20:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=531 Smart Fortwo Micro Hybrid Drive (MHD) has been available for quite a while on Europe's car markets. It's Smart's way of saying "I am cleaner than the cleanest", and a quite impressive innovation that brings some kind of a "hybrid" system into play by using a start-stop mechanism of the engine. It uses regenerative brakes, like all hybrids do, to recharge the battery, and it stops the engine when you halt at a stop light (in fact, when your speed drops below 8km/h).

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