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  • JoeyM

    July 26, 2010 9:30 p.m. JoeyM HalfDork

    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

    July 27, 2010 9:37 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

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

  • awebb

    July 27, 2010 12:19 p.m. awebb New Reader

    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

    July 28, 2010 8:31 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

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

  • vwcorvette

    July 28, 2010 1:46 p.m. vwcorvette Reader

    The obsolete is being discovered everyday.

  • Salanis

    July 28, 2010 2:04 p.m. Salanis SuperDork

    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 You've got to be an idiot to try to update that kind of outdated technology and call it a "feature".

 
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