Mar 4, 2009

Happy Birthday! The Gasoline-Electric Hybrid Car is 100 Years Old

Where have we come in a 10, 20, 30 or 100 years...
 
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Henri Pieper, Great Grand-Father of the Prius Hybrid Car Henri Pieper, a German-born inventor and gunmaker in Belgium, was granted a US patent in 1909 (March 2nd, to be exact, though the submission took place on November 23rd 1905) for a car that is basically a gasoline-electric hybrid. Read more from the TreeHugger