Weekend Mechanic host Bruce Bonebrake visits a car dealership to look at the technology and features of gasoline-electric hybrid cars. After inspecting the hybrid engine design, Bruce drives the car and also looks at the high-capacity battery system. Bruce also examines the history of the hybrid vehicle which goes back to the late 1800s and were popular until Henry Ford started mass-producing gas-only powered cars in the early 1900s. Hybrids and other alternative vehicles made a comeback in the 1990s and Honda released the first mass-produced Hybrid to be sold in the US, the Insight, in 2000. Sales of hybrids were slow at first but have consistently doubled and are expected to be over a million a year by 2008.
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