Fully electric vehicles came before the internal combustion engine, and hybrid gasoline vehicles had a brief moment in the early 1900s. After around 1920, electric vehicles of any kind were mainly the domain of home-garage experimentation, and it wasn’t until the 1990s that Honda and Toyota started working seriously on hybrid technology again. The Honda Insight was the first production hybrid we saw in the US, arriving in 1999 with the Toyota Prius arriving a few months later. Honda was on the right track, but it was the Prius that completely changed the automotive landscape in the 21st century.
