JoeyM
JoeyM HalfDork
7/26/10 9:30 p.m.

http://www.popsci.com/cars/gallery/2010-07/archive-gallery-journey-electric-car

popular science said: Archive Gallery: The Electric Car, 1916-Present August of 1916 was our first issue to cover a hybrid gasoline-electric automobile. The car combines the “utility of both a gasoline and an electric automobile”.
mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
7/27/10 9:37 a.m.

well, it's good to know that the hybrid cars are STILL not going that far on just their batteries

awebb
awebb New Reader
7/27/10 12:19 p.m.

But hybrid cars are the wave of the future. It doesn't matter that people couldn't make them work a century ago, they're the answer to ALL our problems today!!!

mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
7/28/10 8:31 a.m.

well, you have to admit.. a century ago, that was some pretty good range

vwcorvette
vwcorvette Reader
7/28/10 1:46 p.m.

The obsolete is being discovered everyday.

Salanis
Salanis SuperDork
7/28/10 2:04 p.m.
vwcorvette wrote: The obsolete is being discovered everyday.

Yeah, people keep putting old obsolete crap on presumably "advanced" cars these days. Like, leaf springs. That's like horse cart technology! You've got to be an idiot to try to update that kind of outdated technology and call it a "feature".

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