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2006 Hybrid Symposium: Boys, Toys, and a Planet in Peril

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.

Victor Wouk and The Great Hybrid Car Cover-up of 1974

Victor Wouk and The Great Hybrid Car Cover-up of 1974

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.

Society of Automotive Engineers' 2005 Hybrid Symposium

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.

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