"HYBRIDS HAVE THE HYPE, but diesels have the history. As the battle to develop a more Earth-friendly automobile heats up, both technologies offer strengths and weaknesses" (Stewart, Ben).
The difference between a diesel and a hybrid is that a diesel will keep running it's engine in stop and go traffic while a hybrid turns off it's engine and runs mostly on electricity. This causes the hybrid cars to get better gas millage. This is shown through studies about traffic congestion and its rise. A paper written in 2005 said,“One day commuters might face low traffic volumes, no traffic incidents, and good weather; the next day traffic might be heavier than normal, it might be raining, and a severe crash may occur that blocks lanes on the roadway”(ops.fhwa.dot.gov). This implies that you can never know what will happen to cause traffic. Researchers have pin pointed seven sources of congestion that are growing, as you can see in the pie graph below.
The difference between a diesel and a hybrid is that a diesel will keep running it's engine in stop and go traffic while a hybrid turns off it's engine and runs mostly on electricity. This causes the hybrid cars to get better gas millage. This is shown through studies about traffic congestion and its rise. A paper written in 2005 said,“One day commuters might face low traffic volumes, no traffic incidents, and good weather; the next day traffic might be heavier than normal, it might be raining, and a severe crash may occur that blocks lanes on the roadway”(ops.fhwa.dot.gov). This implies that you can never know what will happen to cause traffic. Researchers have pin pointed seven sources of congestion that are growing, as you can see in the pie graph below.
