The uncomfortable truth about hybrid vehicles

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How it started

Apologies to the Toyota Prius, but the archetypal hybrid conveyance of enactment was the Semper Vivus, developed by Ferdinand Porsche (yes, that Porsche) mode backmost successful 1900. The Semper Vivus (Latin for "always alive") utilized 2 combustion engines to powerfulness generators, which past fed energy to motors wrong the instrumentality hubs. The information that it took modern engineers implicit a period to truly admit th …

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