A family of six going on a trip to a resort about two hundred kilometers away from home will either take the bus, if one’s available, or take the family van and gobble up around 20 liters in diesoline. Imagine the pollutants that family van emits!
Not anymore. These days, that same family can bring a hybrid van that is not only safe, but more so, cleaner and healthier, both for the environment and the passengers. Capitalizing on the practicality of combining gasoline and electricity in hybrid technology, hybrid vans can offer other features that will definitely be a come-on for the environmentall-conscious.
What does a Hybrid Van have to Offer?
Before making that decision to go for a hybrid van for your family or office, let us take a look first at what these vans of today and of the future have to offer.
Take a Toyota Estima Hybrid Van for example. It combines a four-cylinder engine with two electric motors. The electric motors are placed one in front and one at the rear of the vehicle, making a four-wheel drive arrangement. Without the complex transmission shafts and all of a four-wheel drive, the hybrid is lighter, thus more fuel or electric...