Development Of The Hybrid Car

Though the modern history of hybrid cars starts from the 1990s, they can not be reckoned a new invention at all. Different types of hybrid engines and sources of power were used in the means of transport even hundreds of years ago. However, it is true that the greatest advances in this connection have been noticed during the past few years.

Substitutes of fuel power came into the world, when a group of Flanders were conducting an experiment over the steam that they used to power their cars. This was continued further then for the coaches to be powered with steam as well. Still it is considered that the hybrid cars were a result of an ongoing research for economic and manageable ways to provide fuel for the vehicles.

The developments, which were made during the 1600s and the 1700s, were some minute developments and no real hybrid car had surfaced until 1898. It was in 1898 when the first real hybrid-powered car was introduced.

Modern worlds hybrid cars were originally seen in Porsches cars, as they used the same contemporary engineering. It had the same technique of a revolving generator for fuelling the motor, situated at the centre of the wheel, as seen in modern hybrid cars. The Porsche car was powered using batteries as the source, which travelled around 40 miles per hour. After the original, hybrid car developed another two followed, which were seen in Paris.

Many electric and hybrid cars came into development by the early years of the 20th century. It was very common to see several numbers of hybrid and electric cars on the road. Strangely the number of hybrid cars to be seen commonly disintegrated by 1920s, seemed like they were never there.

The decline of hybrid cars mainly occurred due to the beginning of T Model, the popular Ford automobiles. Gas was the source used to power this model and the production in the assembly line created an easier method of generating faster cars.

General Motors began concentrating its production of hybrid cars in 1969, which generally is the period when the modern history of hybrid cars started. Eco- friendly and speedy cars were the focus of GMs experiments, while building the hybrid cars. A variety of scientists, inventors, and engineers worked hard together in the upcoming twenty years, in building cars with the method of hybrid technology.

In 1997, when Audi and Toyota developed the first hybrid cars, they experienced a mixture of responses from public. There were certain faults that were observed, however in the coming models, the automakers worked on diminishing them. In the modern era, Toyota and Honda are considered to be the leaders of hybrid car producers, even though there are many other automakers that put in their hard work to develop hybrid cars.