POLL: First time Hybrid Owner?

First hybrid for us. Clarity is a perfect transitional car to EV without range anxiety.


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I had a 2010 Honda Insight EX prior to my Clarity.

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Camry Hybrid was our first. Fusion Hybrid was second. Infiniti Q50 hybrid was our third.


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2008 Prius, then 2015 Prius. Ordered solar for the roof, then went in search of a PHEV. All had too short of EV arrange until I discovered the Clarity.

 

Our Clarity is NOT a hybrid, nor it is out first EV.
Our first (and current) hybrid is a C-Max.

 

Clarity is our first hybrid. Can you guess, without looking it up, who invented the first hybrid and what decade? Here is a clue.

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First 2000 Insight delivered in the midwest (sold in 2007); current hybrids: 2006 Insight (one of the last gen-1s), 2010 Insight (first in town), 2018 Clarity Plug-In Hybrid (first in town).

 

2006 Prius, 2012 Prius Plugin, and now the wonderful Clarity (It's sooooo bigggggg!)

 

I don't know what your picture is, but its not the first hybrid from what I found. Here is a story from Hemmings on the 1896 Armstrong Phaeton. Has a nice video of it going. Built in Bridgeport, CT.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2016/03/14/perhaps-the-worlds-first-hybrid-an-1896-armstrong-sells-for-483400-at-amelia-island/

 

Ahh now I found yours, a later hybrid from Porsche. And it could also claim to be the first because they actually manufactured more than one of them, unlike the one of a kind Armstrong.

 

It took me 4 Prii (02,06, 08, 11)before I got to my Clarity!

 

2012 Honda CRZ 6spd and a lemon 2016 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. The manual transmission on the CRZ made the lack of power a bit more bearable.

 

The last stick-shift hybrid ever. If it would have been faster or offered Insight-like fuel economy, I would have replaced my gen-1 5-speed Insight with a CR-Z. If only Honda had made their electric 4-motor, 4WD CR-Z prototype into a real car!

 

2003 civic hybrid, 2013 CMax Energi, 2018 Clarity. Smattering of Honda Accord's in between. Daughter still drives 2007 fit with 55,000 mi.

 

2008 Prius, 2012 Lincoln MKZ hybrid ( loved it ) Now 2018 Clarity, overall just as nice as MKZ. MKZ had Microsoft SYNC system I hated it Clarity not perfect but much better. I miss the 625 - 675 miles on fill-up with MKZ. 16-17 gals.

 

Let’s be clear that our wonderfully ridding and efficient Claritys are PLUG IN hybrids not hybrids. There’s a big difference.

 

My first was 2010 camry hybrid. Loved it! Then the clarity. Imho the clarity is a hybrid because it is capable using both gas an electric in tandem just like my camry hybrid. But since it also has significant ev capability it is a different class of hybrid....hence the name phev

 

Mea culpa. Thought my Clarity was a hybrid. Will remove all those hybrid badges so I don't make that mistake again.