All About Electric and Hybrid Cars and Who's Driving Them (Tell Your Parents) [Library Binding]

Stephanie Bearce (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Tell Your Parents

What s the big deal about hybrid cars? Why are there so many celebrities driving them? Are these cars really better than gasoline powered cars? You can learn how hybrid cars work and explore new inventions in the automotive industry. Discover vehicles powered by hydrogen and cars that run on sunshine. Learn how to reduce your own carbon footprint and help your family save gasoline. It s all possible when you explore the world of hybrid cars.

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About the Author

Stephanie Bearce grew up on a farm in Kansas where the skies were blue and she never saw the fog of pollution. Then she moved to a large city where there were lots of cars and very little public transportation. On summer days the skies were often hazy and gray from smog. Bearce became interested in learning how to help clean the environment. She worked as a teacher and education coordinator at Missouri Botanical Garden, where scientists research how plants and humans can help the earth. She learned about alternative fuel sources for homes and cars and worked to teach adults and children. As a science teacher, she worked with students to research science fair projects that show the benefits of alternative fuels. In the future Bearce hopes that hybrid and electric cars will become a normal form of transportation and that smog will be a distant memory for all people.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Library Binding: 48 pages
• Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers (June 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584157631
• ISBN-13: 978-1584157632
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,794,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a very thoroughly researched and well-written book about hybrid and electric cars that will fascinate car enthusiasts!, November 21, 2009

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This review is from: All About Electric and Hybrid Cars and Who's Driving Them (Tell Your Parents) (Library Binding)

Environmentally friendly cars have been around much longer than you'd think. For example, the first electric cars were introduced in the 1830s. The advantages of a gasoline-powered vehicle were weighed against the electric and in the end the gasoline powered vehicles won out. In the 1960s people began to notice the polluting effects cars had on the atmosphere began to notice that in "placed like Los Angeles, the sky was often hazy and brown with smog." Lung cancer, respiratory problems and global warming were on the horizon. It was definitely time to rethink the fact that we were using nonrenewable resources and hurting our planet and endangering our health.

Famous people like Cameron Diaz, Al Gore and Brad Pitt are trying to set an example by driving hybrid cars. Even making one simple green change is "one way a person can reduce his or her carbon footprint." Motor vehicles contribute a whopping "72 percent of all ozone." With more than 250 million vehicles in the United States alone, we are looking at a serious problem, to say nothing of pollution emitted by oil refineries. In this book you'll learn about the history of hybrid cars, how they work, you'll get to take a look at several examples of these vehicles, and you'll learn how you can help. Did you know that the Lohner-Porsche company, now Porsche, built the first hybrid car in 1899? Amazing!

This is a very thoroughly researched and well-written book about hybrid and electric cars that will fascinate the young car enthusiast. The book is up-to-date and even includes little facts such as the price of gasoline in Europe topped $10 a gallon in 2009. The layout is nice with numerous full colored photographs, informative sidebars and reproductions of interesting ephemera. In the back of the book is an index, a glossary, an air pollution experiment, an excellent historical timeline and additional recommended book and Internet resources.