There are times when it makes sense to play along with the crowd. And then there are moments when you have to say exactly what's on your mind. One of those moments came up at the Society of Automotive Engineers' 2006 Hybrid Symposium in San Diego.
Thirty years before the Toyota Prius got the attention of an energy-anxious nation, a starry-eyed inventor named Victor Wouk built a hybrid gas-electric vehicle that sipped fuel at half the rate of virtually all other cars on the road.
Thirty years before the Toyota Prius got the attention of an energy-anxious nation, a starry-eyed inventor named Victor Wouk built a hybrid gas-electric vehicle that sipped fuel at half the rate of virtually all other cars on the road.