Jason also made sure to emphasize how valuable hybrid engineer-designers are to modern businesses.

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This would be a useful trait to engineer into hybrid crops, such as rice, so that the seeds could carry the same properties generation upon generation.

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As Ford's investment in electrified vehicles such as Fusion Hybrid increased, so did the size of the Sustainable Mobility Technologies team behind it, said Chuck Gray, Ford chief engineer, Global Core Engineering Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.

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He became chief engineer for the Prius, the world's first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid car, in 1996.

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