Phase 7

Reflection 

The three sources that i will include in my Formal Analytical Report (FAR) are CBSnews.com, web.ebscohost .com, and 2facts.com. The reason i picked those three because CBSnews is one of the most trusted news channels, and well known in the world. The CBSnews source i found for this blog  gives examples of Vehicles that runs with back-up gasoline engines, for example; Chevrolet Volt which sold strongly than the pure electric vehicles such as the Nissan leaf. General Motors sold 1,760 Volts in June and 8,817 for the first half of the year, a 221% increase. While the Nissan Leaf sold 535 in June and 3,148 in the first half of 2012. this will help  me to provide the evidence on my FAR that Electric hybrid is more wanted in the market than pure electric.  

The second source is ebscohost and it's a hacc database. I find so many articles on it and most of them are very effective and are proven by evidence and critical details. I am going to include most of my sources on the FAR from the hacc library databases because i find it educational and well trusted sources. and my third is 2facts which is an also a hacc database whic has articles that deal with issues & Controversies facts that will help me to state facts about the electric hybrid vehicles on my FAR.

My knowledge about the electric cars has changed about this topic, reading too many articles to choose the right one makes the reader more informed about the subject.i learned more that hybrid could really solve our gas and oil problems, at least decrease the amount of usage. also it would eliminate the CO and CO2 in the air that comes out of the car's exhaust.

The analytical question that guided me to write my FAR is, Why electric hybrid cars are the solution ? 

The anaylitical question worked very well for me. first i started looking for the amount of oil we import and the usage of oil in the U.S. and from there i started relating the electric hybrid vehicles to the saving plan we could make on oil usage and importing it. 

I didn't get a chance to do my blog 3 but i would've proved evidence about the oil prices. We pay high prices to get it from another countries and that's what causes the high prices we pay at the gas pump. America use only a little of its own oil production and doesn't share too much petroleum with other countries. They rather buy it now and care for using its own later when petroulem run slow in other countries then the United States will be the oil dominate. That's a hook up blog to relate the idea of hybrid as a solution for reducing oil usage. also hybrid r would reduce the amount of CO and CO2 and other chemicals in the air.

Phase 4: Assessing Credibility 

 Edgerton, Jerry (2012). " "Hybrid and electric car sales soar as gas prices fall." CBSNews. Retrieved July 23, 2012 from http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57477687/hybrid-and-electric-car-sales-soar-as-gas-prices-fall/

Summary

The first article I choose is from the CBSNews.com, it's written by Jerry Edgerton. the article is named  "Hybrid and electric car sales soar as gas prices fall," on . The article is related to the topic I am discussing and this article focuses on the difference between the cars that totally runs on the batteries and the other cars that uses the back-up gasoline engines so they wouldn't have to get stuck on a busy traffic. It's a very good article because it give examples about the different kinds of cars like Vehicles with the back-up gasoline engine is the Chevrolet Volt which sold strongly, while pure electrics such as the Nissan Leaf lagged. General Motors sold 1,760 Volts in June and 8,817 for the first half of the year, a 221% increase. While the Nissan Leaf sold 535 in June and 3,148 in the first half of 2012.

CRAAP Analysis 

Jerry Edferton is a writer in the CBSnews. He is the author of Car Shopping Made Easy, has been covering the car beat since Detroit companies dominated the U.S. market. The former car columnist for Money magazine and Washington correspondent for Business Week, Edgerton specializes in finding the best deals on wheels and offering advice on making your car last. The source has a great credibility and also the CBSNews is a well trusted source to look at also the author has a more than an article and all of them cover subject that deals with the cars and most of them about the hybrids and cars that uses it as a system. I suggest the article for anyone that is interested in the topic of Hybrids and how its used in our cars now. The purpose of this specifically is to inform people about the different between pure electric which doesnt require and gasoline at all but its risky because the car could stop any time if the charging goes out, and the other one is the one that uses the function of gasoline engine as a backup so the car would charge up its battery while its running on gas.

Siuru, B. (1999). Hybrid electric vehicles. Popular Electronics, 16(1), 37-42. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.hacc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/197160186?accountid=11302

Summary 

This article "Hybrid electric vehicles" basically agrees with the same point I am trying to get across my topic and its a very credible source to use for my topic. Siuru says, "GM's series HEV's internal-combustion engine uses a small, gas, turbine engine that functions as an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) by driving a high-speed, permanent-magnet, AC generator that supplies energy to the motor and provides battery charging." that's better than the cars that uses the batteries all the time while driving because then it will goes off just like any battery we use even in the remote control. its the same idea. and by using gasoline function with the hybrid that will allow it to recharge the battery at some certain speed. 

CRAAP Analysis

The article "Hybrid electric vehicles" is writting by Bill Siuru back in Jan 1999. the article is a little old but still i have found enough information that covers the topic. the Hybrid history goes back actually awhile ago which makes it a strong subject to talk about now a days.  I found this article at ProQuest Research Library: Science & Technology which makes it a well trusted source to use. I think the author uses complicated words in his article which makes it a little hard to understand and also its a very long article but still the article discusses few different kinds of Hybrid electric vehicles.the different kinds that are listed are the ones that deals with either Electric Vehicles (EV)  or Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV). that helps me and my audience to have a better understanding for the difference between the systems that we could use to save us from spending money of gasoline and it also contrast both systems which makes it a credible source to use.

I'd prefer the article I picked first which is "Hybrid and electric car sales soar as gas prices fall" because first it's much simple to understand than the second one, second its still a well trusted source to look at since it came from the CBSNews and also the author Edgerton is a specialist in finding the best deals on wheels and offering advice on making your car last, which makes his opinion and his suggestions stronger. Also the date for the article is newer than then second article I used. 

Phase 2

Gasoline is a problem that most of the people talk about now everywhere we go. High prices is something people wouldn't be interested in. The topic I am discussing is about the new Hybrid car's system that few car companies started to follow. I found this topic interesting because in the engineering field most of the work is on engines and The reason I picked Hybrid cars is because its a solution to the problem that almost everyone deal with which is spending too much money on gasoline.

I learned about the Hybrid system the first time was through one of my friends who has one of those hybrid cars. Also in one of my previous classes one of the classmates had it as a topic to discuss and he did a pretty well presentation on it. All I know about Hybrid cars that it works with both functions, battery which saves gas and the regular engine that we see in all cars.  I found many researches about this topic that would help me to answer many questions about the system. For example; when does the car switch from gas to hybrid in hybrid cars? which companies use the hybrid system? and what cars has the hybrid feature?

My potential audience that would be interested in my blog would be the automotive technology students and engineering students who wants to learn more about automotive new technology that we use in market, that helps with stepping up our technique to be more creative on designing our products.