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A good driver is a safe driver and developing good driving habits helps you and your passengers avoid situations that could potentially lead to accidents. Avoiding accidents can not only save lives and prevent injuries, but also save you the time and trouble that accompany them. Many insurance companies reward good drivers by lowering car insurance premiums as time passes without accidents.

An eclectic car is a modern vehicle that does not use fuel. They are also referred to as green cars. There are different types of eclectic cars; they areclassified according to their source of energy for instance solar, wind, and steam.
 

A hybrid car is a car designed to contain both the gasoline and electric powered motors. A hybrid car is one of the complex systems of car that we have in the current era. Since it has both the gasoline and electric motors powered systems, it has very many benefits.
 

Toyota Motor Corp. recently announced that they will test-run advanced gasoline-electric hybrid cars for public road tests in Japan and plans tests for the U.S. and Europe. These gasoline-electric hybrid cars can cut fuel costs by some 40% compared with those of its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid.

Europe is one of the fastest growing hybrid car market in the world. In the first six months of 2007, over 23,000 environmentally friendly cars were sold in the European country, translating into a rise of 25% over the same period last year. The growth indicates that low-emission automobiles made up for around 15% of all new registered cars.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered all city taxis to operate on hybrid engines by 2012 as part of his drive to reduce air pollution. Currently New York has around 13,000 taxies among them only 375 operate on hybrid engines.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) boosted hybrid car sales significantly by providing tax credit to buyers last few years. But recently IRS announced some cut on tax credit for some popular models.

In Germany, according to the recent survey commissioned by Hannover-based tire producer Continental, 30.7 percent of the respondents said that next time they would certainly or most probably buy a hybrid car with both an electric motor and a combustion engine. This is a big just from last autumn when only 24.7 percent said they would consider buying a hybrid car. 
Continental board member Karl-Thomas Neumann predicted that in the European market alone, sales of hybrid cars will increase by about 100,000 units annually in the coming three years.   Currently the number of hybrid cars are sold worldwide annually is between 200,000 and 300,000 hybrid cars

There is good news for Hemi Lovers.  Chrysler to release a hybrid Hemi engine option which will give more fuel efficiency than traditional Hemi without sacrificing any power. Traditionally hemi known more for power than fuel economy. Current Aspens and Durangos (both use hemi engine) get 13 miles per gallon in the city driving and 18 on the highway, but the hybrid versions should get an estimated 18.2 mpg in city driving and about 22.5 on freeways.