La Primer Generacion: Hybrid Cars

The Ford Motor Company was
founded in 1903 by Henry Ford, with investments from John and Horace
Dodge and ten other investors. Henry Ford was forty years old then and
this company went on to become one of the largest motor vehicle
companies of the world. The Model T automobile killed off all early
versions of hybrid vehicles and electric cars. The almost three times
cheaper automobile, based on a combustion engine, is what we all have
to thank for the current environmental problems and the greenhouse
effect the atmosphere is experiencing. Unfortunately for the world, the
cheap but very well functioning car inspired many car manufacturers
worldwide and combustion engines prevailed, not only establishing the
automotive industry, but also cementing the monopoly of the gasoline
and petroleum companies over our fates.
It is understandable that Ford Motor Company was very reluctant to
enter into the hybrid car market, which was fervently pushed by the
Toyota Motor Company since the nineties of the twentieth century.
Pressured by the environmentalists, by the shifting market focus, by
the diminishing sales and the research and development team, the board
of directors finally succumbed and in 2004 the first Ford hybrid
vehicle, the Ford Escape Hybrid, was offered for sale. Basically a Ford
Escape special utility vehicle, the Ford Escape Hybrid is a so

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