What are the energy sources of the Toyota Prius?

Please show your references and be as specific as possible...What are the energy sources of the Toyota Prius?In spite of your "additional details," the first answer you received is correct: Gasoline.



Yes, the Prius is a hybrid, which means that it also uses electricity for propulsion. But where does the electricity come from...two places: Either it is generated directly by the gasoline engine turning a generator, or it is "re-generated" by capturing forward motion from the car when it is slowing down. (When you step on the brake pedal, the car slows down because it is pulling electricity from the generator attached to the drivetrain, and this slows the car. If you step HARD on the brake, then it uses conventional brakes also.) But where did the motion come from that the generator turns back into electricity...? The gasoline engine.



Another way of looking at it:

Q: How do you fuel-up a Prius?

A: By filling the gasoline tank, just like a conventional car.



You don't plug it in (at least not the current model). So the energy source is Gasoline. Period.What are the energy sources of the Toyota Prius?
Gasoline.What are the energy sources of the Toyota Prius?Farts...the Prius looks like a fartmobile anywaysWhat are the energy sources of the Toyota Prius?
The Prius is powered by gasoline, it just uses it much more efficiently than other cars out there.



It's called a hybrid because it also uses electric power at low speeds, but this electric power comes from batteries which are charged by a gasoline engine (and also partially by your brakes).



But your brakes only work if the car was going fast to begin with, and the batteries only charge if there is a gasoline engine to charge them, so ultimately the Prius is powered entirely by gasoline. What are the energy sources of the Toyota Prius?only one real energy source. gas, which runs the gas engine, which recharges the battery. unless you consider the minuscule amount of energy that is captured from the kinetic energy in the brakes to be an energy source