The first hybrid gasoline-electric car was invented in 1899.Regenerative breaking hybrid car was invented in 1978.
Victor Wouk invented the first prototype hybrid car in 1974 called the Buik Skylark.
The hybrid car was invented by Ferdinand Porsche in 1899.
Hybrids were not discovered, they were invented. The first hybrid car invented was a 100-year-old Porsche! The car had in-wheel electric motors and an onboard gas engine to recharge the batteries.
Japaniese people were the first people who invented the hybrid car. e.g. Toyota Hybrid X
2003
Jacob Lohner was one of the inventors of the hybrid smart car.
In the late 1990s.
A Viennese inventor created the first hybrid car in 1900. His name was Jacob Lohner and his car was called Elektromobil.
The first hybrid car (built in 1899) used a gasoline engine to supply power to an electric motor that drove the car's front wheels.
For the same reasons as with other types of cars invented in the 1880s and 1890s.
Ford Fusion Hybrid, but the car of the decade is the bugatti veyron.