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”.
well, it's good to know that the hybrid cars are STILL not going that far on just their batteries
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!!!
well, you have to admit.. a century ago, that was some pretty good range
The obsolete is being discovered everyday.
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 You've got to be an idiot to try to update that kind of outdated technology and call it a "feature".