So what else is new

**ringmaster** · #1 06-14-2013, 03:33 PM

https://www.google.com/search?q=Lohn...w=1051&bih=461

**whulsey** · #2 06-14-2013, 07:16 PM

As I often tell people about the only thing new on automobiles since WW2 is the electronic and digital controls.

**ringmaster** · #3 06-14-2013, 07:34 PM

Porsche gas/electric hybrids were in production for at least eighteen years Landwehr / Porsche electric trucks and land trains were the only thing that could move through the mud of no-mans land in WWI.
Heavy duty off road hybrid vehicle - the Landwehr

**whulsey** · #4 06-15-2013, 03:24 PM

Reading one of my truck magazines this morning and they have an article of Faun. They had a fire truck in 1910 that was driven by electric hub motors. The article also mentions that Tilling Stevens in UK build a traction motor/gas engine bus in 1913. And of course in the US LeTourneau in the 50's developed electric hub motors for their earthmoving equipment and off-road dump trucks.