La Primer Generacion: Hybrid Cars

Although the hybrid car
principle is available since the end of the nineteenth century, when it
was developed by Ferdinand Porsche, the famous car engineer, it took
almost a century for the principle to be transferred into a feasible
and mass produced vehicle. Since 1997, when Toyota unveiled the new
Prius and started the current hybrid cars craze, much has been said
about the newly rediscovered technology and the improvements it is
supposed to bring into the automotive industry. Unfortunately the
public relations mechanisms of all the large companies that provide
hybrid versions or straight up hybrid cars, as well as the governments
pushing for environmental friendly solutions for the future, have
stirred up quite a ruckus and published numerous information bulletins,
which spread all over the world.
Any new technology automatically generates interest and if this
interest is fueled by relentless bombarding of information and new
solutions, then the common individual is facing a huge pool of data,
whereby most of it is nothing else but extreme propaganda. A lot of
wishful thinking, paired with immense greed, sprinkled with falling car
sales, recession and global warming have propelled a simple gadget into
a green movement. What was supposed to be a fuel efficient car, with
emissions ranging somewhere around a diesel engine, suddenly became the
savior of our future, the

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