# America's first gasoline/electric hybrid
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-first-gasoline-electric-hybrid/6944
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 8, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-first-gasoline-electric-hybrid/6944 "2000-02-08T22:34:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-first-gasoline-electric-hybrid/6944/1 "2000-02-08T22:34:00Z")
It’s the Honda Insight, boasting 61/70 mpg. I thought the concept was great, but the car was electric-lime-green & too futuristic looking. How do you think oil companies will react to this? I’m sure they’ve been anticipating something along these lines for a while.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-first-gasoline-electric-hybrid/6944/2 "2000-02-08T22:39:00Z")
Allow me to direct your attention [here](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/004206.html) to MPSIMS for a discussion of the Honda and the Toyota.
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-first-gasoline-electric-hybrid/6944/3 "2000-02-09T15:35:00Z")
In light of California’s law requiring that all cars sold in the state be ‘zero-emission’ cars by some date in the relatively near future, one assumes the gasoline companies have known for some time of the possibility, yes. 🙂
I’d give you the citation for the regulations, but I can’t access California’s Bureau of Automotive Repair regulations.