欧洲商用车企业不再把混合动力单纯作为技术成果展示,而是真刀真枪地准备在市场上展开角逐1960年代,戴姆勒尝试开发一款环保型公交车,它们希望用一部分电力来代替燃油驱动车辆,从而减少燃油的消耗和尾气的排放。彼时,既没有专业的车用电池,电池技术也远没有达到今天的水平,即使在汽车工程领域,汽车工程师们也无法通过技术手段把那些又大又重的电池布置在车辆上。它们最终选择的方案是,在公交车后拖挂一辆拖车,拖车上装载着重达一吨多的电池。而这就是最早的混合动力汽车。 European commercial vehicle companies are no longer hybrid as a purely technological achievements show, but really ready to start fighting in the market in the 1960s, Daimler attempts to develop an environmentally friendly bus, they hope to use part of the electricity instead of Fuel-driven vehicles, thereby reducing fuel consumption and exhaust emissions. That time, there is neither a professional car battery, battery technology is far below today’s level, even in the field of automotive engineering, automotive engineers can not be technical means to those large and heavy batteries arranged in the vehicle. The solution they ultimately chose was to tow a trailer behind the bus carrying a battery weighing more than a ton. And this is the earliest hybrid car.