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When Was the Hybrid car invented??

hybrids457 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:21:00 +0000

You know, we all think that hybrid technology is a result of the high tech revolution; something that was just invented10/15 years ago. I was under the same impression until I did some research. The Hybrid engine has been in existence for over a hundred years. The first hybrid car was built in 1901 by Ferdinand Porsche (sound familiar?) . Thats only 4 years after the diesel engine was built. For some reason it took 100 years to commercialize…..

Any thoughts?

To Buy?

hybrids457 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:11:37 +0000

Although I am a fan of hybrids I still have yet to purchase one. I am a lover of cars, always have been. But cars are expensive. So if and when I do buy car I tend to buy cars that are very reliable,usually Japanese cars. Cars that will last me 10 years or so without causing me too many problems are the cars I buy. When I think about hybrids my doubts are arisen as to the quality of the cars being produced. They are still new and the reliability factor is still something that bothers me and hinders me from making that purchase.

Any thoughts?

100 mpg?

hybrids457 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:22:44 +0000

There was in article in this months fast company claiming that Jonathan Goodwin has build a hybrid engine that can get 100 MPG. Yes, thats right 100MPG. It comes to me as no surprise that such a thing can be built. I just question why motor-head messiah can figure this out but our genius car manufacturers over at GM and in Japan can’t?

Hybrid Blog

hybrids457 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:44:06 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of research these days on hybrids so I figured I would share some of my interesting findings here on the web. So I hope you find this as interesting as I do.