What is the history of hybrid automobiles?
In the 18th century, France had a steam-powered motor carriage that traveled 6 mph. In the 19th century, an Englishman assembled a car with an electric motor, and a blacksmith in Vermont produced an electric motor powered carriage in the 1830s. By the end of the 1800s, a Connecticut manufacturer had produced hundreds of electric cars and a German named Porsche manufactured a front wheel drive electric car and later a hybrid using an internal combustion engine pared with an electric motor. This is probably the first hybrid vehicle on record. In 1904, when Henry Ford developed the first assembly line manufacturing plant for gas-powered vehicles, the decline of electric powered vehicles for mass consumption was imminent. After the U.S. Congress in the late 1960s, launched bills suggesting that producing electric vehicles would help cut air pollution, renewed interest in alternative transportation was revived. General Motors tested an experimental hybrid car that used electricity up to 13
