The first hybrid gasoline-electric car was invented in 1899.Regenerative breaking hybrid car was invented in 1978.
The hybrid car was invented by Ferdinand Porsche in 1899.
Japaniese people were the first people who invented the hybrid car. e.g. Toyota Hybrid X
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.
Late 1980's
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.
Victor Wouk invented the first prototype hybrid car in 1974 called the Buik Skylark.
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.
For the same reasons as with other types of cars invented in the 1880s and 1890s.
1898 by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche. The car was driven by electric motors in the wheel hubs and utilized a gasoline engine to turn a generator.