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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Keeping Your Transmission Eco-Friendly

Green Transmissions?

There are many parts of today's vehicles that can be engineered, retrofit or rebuilt to make them more environmentally friendly and less harmful to the planet. Everyone has heard of low emission vehicles, hybrid and no-fuel cars and regenerative braking technologies but how often does one think of the impact of cleaner, more eco-conscious transmissions?

Keep Your Transmission in Good Order

You may not realize it but keeping your transmission in good working order can go along way towards helping to protect our environment by ensuring that your transmission is performing optimally. According to many transmission repair experts, transmission fluid leaks can be avoided with regular maintenance.

Some of the signs of a transmission in need of repair or maintenance are easy to spot.

In short, if the transmission is slow to start this means that your transmission fluid is low and that an environmentally detrimental leak may be occurring. Furthermore, if the transmission doesn't start at all, you may not have any transmission fluid left. The best way to check to see if your car has been leaking fluid is to inspect the ground where it is normally parked for tell-tale red transmission fluid.

A Clean Transmission Is a Great Start

Although there may be no such thing as a transmission that had been designed from the ground up to be environmentally conscious it is certain that regular maintenance and repair can play a key role in prevent spills and leaks of potentially toxic chemicals. By taking your vehicle into a reliable shop with a staff full of experts in the field you can rest assured that your car will not only perform at its best but that it will not be causing unnecessary harm to the environment.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Are Hybrids Really Eco-friendy?

Electrical powered and hybrids are two such types of natural vehicles. In reality, electric vehicles are not at all eco-friendly. In order to get a car to run, it must be "charged" in power channels. These power channels turn only 30% to 40% of the energy into power. When the ability is being moved from the place to a car, 30% of the ability is missing along the electrical cords. Thus, by the time the ability gets to the electrical car, much of the ability is missing. Energy vehicles may cut down contamination in inner places, but they aren't efficient at all.

Hybrid vehicles are becoming the desired vehicles by many drivers. A multiple car has both an motor unit and a gas motor. The power produced whenever you braking mechanism is what abilities up the motor battery. In comparison to electric designs, multiple vehicles appear to be more eco-friendly -- theoretically, at least. In practice, however, multiple vehicles are still not up to par.

Hybrid motorcars are not at all completely "green" either as the battery power would still need to be removed. They aren't exactly eco-friendly. Cost is another drawback of multiple vehicles. For most people, multiple vehicles are costly as opposed to regular engine-run vehicles. Since multiple is a relatively new car concept, they are still not produced in a extensive so as to drive the costs down.

The main point here is that natural vehicles like the genuine electric and multiple vehicles end up using more power, are more difficult to get rid of of and are just too costly for common drivers. Perhaps in a few years, natural vehicles would be a genuine option for drivers, but for now it still fails to deliver of being a practical solution to climatic change.

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