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| The Tucker '49: Would It Have Been America's First Hybrid Passenger Car? |
While sifting through the voluminous archives of the Tucker Historical Collection and Library (HCL), we've discovered incontrovertible evidence that Preston Tucker was pioneering the plug-in hybrid electric automobile for the 1949 model year. The vintage photograph to the right shows how the vent in the left-rear fender--the location of the fuel filler in early Tucker '48s--had been retrofitted to accommodate a standard 110-volt AC outlet. The 1949 Tucker hybrid (code-named "Prestonius" in confidential Tucker Corporation records) would clearly have been a forerunner of General Motors' Chevrolet Volt by more than 63 years.
(P.S. - Please note the date of this post)
(Post and photo credit: Kit Fox)
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