In the 1990s, the Hybrid cars came in to existence. However, they cannot be considered as a new discovery. Almost a century ago, several types of hybrid engines and power resources were utilised for commuting. Even then, in the recent years, there has been a great advancement noticed in Hybrid cars.

Substitutes of fuel power came into the world, when a group of Flanders were conducting an experiment over the steam that they used to power their cars. This was continued further then for the coaches to be powered with steam as well. Still it is considered that the hybrid cars were a result of an ongoing research for economic and manageable ways to provide fuel for the vehicles.

The developments, which were made during the 1600s and the 1700s, were some minute developments and no real hybrid car had surfaced until 1898. It was in 1898 when the first real hybrid-powered car was introduced.

Modern worlds hybrid cars were originally seen in Porsches cars, as they used the same contemporary engineering. It had the same technique of a revolving generator for fuelling the motor, situated at the centre of the wheel, as seen in modern hybrid cars. The Porsche car was powered using batteries as the source, which travelled around 40 miles per hour. After the original, hybrid car developed another two followed, which were seen in Paris.

In the beginning of the 20th century, a large number of electric and hybrid cars had surfaced. It was a time when many believed that a large number of hybrid and other electric vehicles could be seen on the roads quite soon. However, in the 1920s, these hybrids began to vanish from the public eye and soon it was being felt that these hybrid vehicles never existed.

The decline of hybrid cars mainly occurred due to the beginning of T Model, the popular Ford automobiles. Gas was the source used to power this model and the production in the assembly line created an easier method of generating faster cars.

The modern history of hybrid cars begins from 1969 when GM once again took interest in these hybrid vehicles and started its experiments to produce some fast and eco-friendly hybrid vehicles. In the next twenty years, scientists, engineers, and inventors seemed to put loads of efforts in developing hybrid technology for the vehicles.

In 1997, when Audi and Toyota developed the first hybrid cars, they experienced a mixture of responses from public. There were certain faults that were observed, however in the coming models, the automakers worked on diminishing them. In the modern era, Toyota and Honda are considered to be the leaders of hybrid car producers, even though there are many other automakers that put in their hard work to develop hybrid cars.