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Old 11-12-07, 07:37 PM
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Default Porsche had world's first hybrid 100 years ago

Don't know if this has been posted before.

The first hybrid car is a 100-year-old Porsche!

The car had in-wheel electric motors and an onboard gas engine to recharge the batteries. This makes the car a serial hybrid (only one engine drives the wheels) like the Volt, instead of a paralell hybrid (both engines drive the wheels) like the Prius


http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/...years-ago.html
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If you think that's impressive you should have seen the train.
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