The Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Trivia Game

LeftieBiker · Apr 24, 2019

Here are the rules: anyone can pose a question to try to stump the other "players." For 24 full hours after that, no one can use the Web or even the local public library to find the answer - it's brainpower only for 24 hours. (It's also the Honor System.) After that, the thinking caps are off, and fingers and voice searches take over.

I'll start, of course: what company created the first modern hybrid car? It wasn't the first hybrid car ever, but as far as I can tell it was the first one built after WWII. One last hint: it was yellow.

SalisburySam · Apr 24, 2019

LeftieBiker said:
Here are the rules: anyone can pose a question to try to stump the other "players." For 24 full hours after that, no one can use the Web or even the local public library to find the answer - it's brainpower only for 24 hours. (It's also the Honor System.) After that, the thinking caps are off, and fingers and voice searches take over.

I'll start, of course: what company created the first modern hybrid car? It wasn't the first hybrid car ever, but as far as I can tell it was the first one built after WWII. One last hint: it was yellow.

Pure guess from the hint: Checker.

LeftieBiker · Apr 24, 2019

Sorry! Good guess, though.

TomT · Apr 24, 2019

I know this only because I was reading an article about Ferdinand Porsche. It was the Lohner Electric Chaise.

LeftieBiker · Apr 24, 2019

Nope. We're looking for a post World War II car here, with a modern body. The LC was the first hybrid, AFAIK, but not the first modern one.

theothertom · Apr 24, 2019

Chevy EV1 ?

LeftieBiker · Apr 24, 2019

Nope. It has to be a hybrid, remember, with both an electric motor or motors, and an ICE.

I'll give another hint: it had more than four wheels.

jlv · Apr 24, 2019

LeftieBiker said:
it had more than four wheels.

It wasn't the huge machine they used in some Antarctic expedition, was it? (I guess not, it wasn't a "car").

LeftieBiker · Apr 24, 2019

jlv said:
LeftieBiker said:

it had more than four wheels.

Click to expand...

It wasn't the huge machine they used in some Antarctic expedition, was it? (I guess not, it wasn't a "car").

Correct. It was a car, not a Snow Cat (which has tracks, IIRC).

One last hint: it was built to promote the ICE it contained.

91040 · Apr 24, 2019

I remember a photo of it. It had 4 wheels in the back. Don’t remember the company or model.

I’ll make a wag that it was a Honda.

LeftieBiker · Apr 24, 2019

91040 said:
I remember a photo of it. It had 4 wheels in the back. Don’t remember the company or model.

I’ll make a wag that it was a Honda.

Warm! But not correct.

LeftieBiker · Apr 25, 2019

It's a bit less than 24 hours, but the guesses have tapered off and I'm ready for bed. Here is one last, gigantic clue. If you want to stick strictly to the rules, you can start searching at 9:45am, EDT.

LeftieBiker · Apr 25, 2019

Actually, there is likely a tie here, and an earlier guess that was just one letter off... If no one else posts the co-winner, I will this evening.

LeftieBiker · Apr 25, 2019

Eh, I'll do it now, at least in Giant Hint form. This is probably the actual winner, as both cars officially came out in 1980, but the second was already built in 1979. Oops! This is what happens when you work backwards from a reference in a YouTube video. Still, the first car is much, much more Bizarre...

jlv · Apr 25, 2019

LeftieBiker said:
Correct. It was a car, not a Snow Cat (which has tracks, IIRC).

The one I was thinking of had tires, not tracks, but only 4 of them. And it was huge:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/06/the-antarctic-snow-cruiser/396617/

LeftieBiker · Apr 25, 2019

jlv said:
LeftieBiker said:

Correct. It was a car, not a Snow Cat (which has tracks, IIRC).

Click to expand...

The one I was thinking of had tires, not tracks, but only 4 of them. And it was huge:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/06/the-antarctic-snow-cruiser/396617/

Neat vehicle, but pre-war, and I'm gonna say "not a car"!

LeftieBiker · Apr 25, 2019

I' pretty surprised that no one has Identified the two photos above. It shouldn't be too hard. One of them has the company emblem on it, for example...

goldbrick · Apr 25, 2019

Since time is up I'll answer after a google search.

Briggs and Stratton! Who'd have thunk it? Apparently the dual rear axles were required to support the weight of the lead-acid battery pack. Technology has thankfully moved on a lot since then and the pace of change seems to be accelerating. Maybe Gen1 Leaf's will be collector items someday, at least if they still have enough bars to get around town.

LeftieBiker · Apr 25, 2019

Here is a link:

https://jalopnik.com/the-company-that-made-your-lawnmower-engine-also-made-t-1789444149

Now, how about the actual first modern-day hybrid...?

theothertom · Apr 25, 2019

LeftieBiker said:
Now, how about the actual first modern-day hybrid...?

Toyota Prius?

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