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In 1901 Ferdinand Porsche developed the Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid, the first gasoline-electric hybrid automobile in the world. The hybrid-electric vehicle did not become widely available until the release of the Toyota Prius in Japan in 1997, followed by the Honda Insight in 1999.he hybrid-electric vehicle did not become widely available until the release of the Toyota Prius in Japan in 1997, followed by the Honda Insight in 1999.
Karl Friedrich Benz was the first man to invent a car powered by petrol (gasoline) in 1885. Well... the above info is: Wrong. Gottfried Daimler did this, and Karl Benz teamed up with him later to form the company Daimler Benz, also known as Mercedes.But there were French proper cars made some years earlier.he first car was invented in the year of 1769 by a French man named Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, who build it under his instructions in the Paris Arsenal by Mechanic Brezin.