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.