The world's first hybrid automobile goes on show again - 111 years later

The world's first hybrid automobile goes on show again - 111 years later:
from Gizmag.

I made a post the other day about the Porsche-Lohner hybrid from 1902.   As I was going through the last few days of Gizmag, guess what I found?  

Photo from Gizmag

Porsche has created a reproduction of the Porsche-Lohner series hybrid.  No word on when it hits the showrooms. 

You thought gas-electric hybrids were new?

This is from the January, 1902 issue of "The Automobile Review".  And it's from Mercedes and Porsche!

Click through to read all about it.

The Lincvolt...rising from the ashes

Back in December, 2010, the completed Lincvolt, Neil Young's electric-turbine hybrid 1959 Lincoln convertible, went up in flames.  For those of us who have been following it for the last several years, it was a hearbreaking moment.  Like the Phoenix, however, it's rising from the ashes.

As posted on the Lincvolt Gazette..."On a project like this, setbacks happen for a reason and we can see that very well from here.  '(The) barn's burnt down.  Now I can see the moon'."

You gotta admire that kind of thinking.  Check 'em out and watch the rebuilding taking place on their webcam archive.

From Lincvolt.com