IF NOT FOR CHEAP OIL

WE MIGHT HAVE HYDROGEN CARS NOW
 

The first hydrogen car was invented in 1807
 

With our constant changes in the automobile have we really found anything new? Certainly not with the use of hydrogen, or  the electric car, or the hybrid, these were in use or discovered long before the gasoline powered vehicle of today.

Robert Anderson of Scotland is credited of inventing the first electric carriage in or around 1832. American, Thomas Davenport built a more successful model in 1842. A non-rechargeable electric cell was used by both inventors.

During the early 1900s the electric vehicles had many advantages in that they did not have the vibration, smell and noise associated with the gasoline powered cars and did not require the long startup time of the steam engines.

If not for the discovery of Texas crude bringing down the price of gasoline and Henry Ford with assembly lines and mass production reducing the price of his internal combustion engine powered vehicles to 500 dollars electric cars would been around for a long time.

The first hydrogen powered car was invented by Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland in 1807. It used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel which is now called browns gas and is highly touted as a gas saver by the auctions on eBay selling hydrogen generators.

The first 4x4 vehicle was a hybrid vehicle invented by Ferdinand Porsche in the early 1900s when he also build hybrid racing cars.