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Every car that has an alternator in a sense is a hybrid albeit to weak of a hybrid to exhibit any of the strengths we have come accustomed to in todays world such as start stop, regenerative braking, or power assist abilities. However the necessity of comingling the two ICE and electric has always been there and always been required once we started adding modern conveniences to cars such as AC, heat, windshield wipers, radios etc..
So the progression from a weak electric motor in the form of the alternator to a more robust electric motor that we see in todays hybrids has really been a very logical progression.
Everything is moving to electric hybridization with the ICE as support only. Take for instance Power steering, What about electric water pumps, or even electric AC, or even electric super chargers :-) anything that can run off the engine can run more efficiently off an electric motor and this is why you now see the shift from the car manufacturers.
In essence we all drive hybrids to some degree excluding of course the pure EV drivers the question really is how dependent is your vehicle on the ICE motor for modern conveniences, acceleration, and braking etc..?
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