A decade past the threshold of a new century, the global automotive industry is scrambling to at once bring the best technology to the marketplace. At the same time that we witness a race toward the future, we are experiencing the unfinished competition from the past. Specifically, in the period between 1910 and 1920 the internal-combustion, gasoline powered automobile was not alone. Many people are learning today that 100 years ago, gas-powered vehicles shared the roads with large numbers of electric vehicles, as well as the mystical steam-powered vehicles. In among this race into the 1920s, there was even a variations of today’s “hybrid” technology. In this video, Nethercutt Museum (Sylmar, Calif.) curator Skip Marketti explains a sample vehicle from this prior era.