A Decade after the Hybrid Car Went Main Stream

Hybrid Cars are now common around the world. Virtually every manufacturer offers hybrid gas and electric vehicles, and in recent years plug in electric vehicles have become common place as well with cities all over the US offering “charging Stations”. While first introduced in 1999 in the US (the Honda Insight), it was not until 2004 and the second generation Prius that Hybrid cars have actually gone from a cute niche to a true mainstream choice vehicle. How commonplace? Over 3 million Prius were sold worldwide in the last calendar year, and over 4 million Hybrid vehicles by all …read more