Who Invented Hybrid Car

Who invented hybrid car is tied to the development of first commercial hybrid engine by Dr Ferdinand Porsche.

This first hybrid car from the company, Lohner-Porsche, used a petrol engine, rotating at a constant speed to drive a dynamo, which then charged accumulators.

Then, the accumulators fed current to electric motors contained within the hubs of the front wheels.

This invention saw the light of day back in 1902.

Before that date, however, there were several advancements in non-gasoline motors, mainly electric cars. The first such non-gasoline car was invented somewhere around years from 1832 and 1839, by Robert Anderson of Scotland and his electric carriage.

There was no real mass-market demand for the type of hybrid engines that Dr Ferdinand Porsche had developed until the late 1990s, when in 1997, Toyota launched the Prius model in Japan, which used an advanced hybrid engine called Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive, modeled after the principles set by Dr Porsche.


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