Activity#2 Technological Innovations

The Hybrid Car

A hybrid Car consists in a vehicle that uses two sources of power: a fueled power source, and a rechargable enegy storgae system. This makes the vehicle less polluting and more fuel efficient.

This system was created to satisfy the demand for a car that would be available and economical, but at the same time it had to be ecologically friendly.

In 1889, Ferdinand Porsche created the first working hybrid car, but since then, there has been a continuos improvement of this invention. In 1960´s Victor Wouk developed a new design of the same thing: a car that would run on gasoline and electricty and cut to the half the amount of gasoline this car consumed.

Despite this, until late in the twentieth century, no major manufacturer of automobiles begun massively producing it. It was until 1990 that Toyota Prius and Honda Insight were succesfully introduced into the automobile market being autentic pioneers in the filed of hybrid cars.

Finally there still is a long way until cars are completely environmentally friendly, but in this precise moment there are lots of engineers taking care of that.