I anyone had said we were riding a hybrid there would probably have been a fight.
R.G. LeTourneau, industrialist and inventor powered his mighty earth moving scrapers “Tournapulls” with electric motors on each wheel. The unit was steered by a central electric motor between tractor and scraper. Incredible engineering from an incredible man.
As a talented engineer/physicist I invented a perpetual motion machine, just like ALgore invented the internet. Now .. if I can only figure out how to get it started .......