Toyota Prius Design Team

zenMachine · 10-19-2007, 05:31 PM

"We had to invent something completely original," says Satoshi Ogiso, executive chief engineer for Toyota's product-planning division. "We'd have to build it from scratch, blueprint and all."

Easier planned than done. Ogiso's 10-person team ultimately swelled to thousands (five of them, including Ogiso, center, are pictured here). The biggest challenge was the battery — too small and it would lack power, too large and it would overheat. In 1995, the first prototype ran for 330 ft. (100 m) before going dead...

Time: Heroes of the Environment

**Tideland Prius** · 10-19-2007, 06:09 PM

Not sure why you posted twice. Should I delete the first one?

zenMachine · 10-19-2007, 06:59 PM

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Not sure why you posted twice. Should I delete the first one?
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Actually I didn't post twice. The server hung when I hit submit, and I just let it sit.
But when it returned two posts appeared. Ghost in the machine?

V8Cobrakid · 10-19-2007, 10:17 PM

priuschat.. lagging? no way!?

**TonyPSchaefer** · 10-20-2007, 12:41 AM

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The team toyed with producing an improved conventional gasoline car, but dismissed the idea as insufficiently revolutionary. [/b]

How often do we get to use the phrase, "insufficiently revolutionary"?

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10-19-2007, 05:31 PM	#1
zenMachine Just another Onionhead Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 1,985 My Car: 2007 Prius Model: Package: #3 Thanks: 5 Thanked 15 Times in 11 Posts Friends: 0	"We had to invent something completely original," says Satoshi Ogiso, executive chief engineer for Toyota's product-planning division. "We'd have to build it from scratch, blueprint and all." Easier planned than done. Ogiso's 10-person team ultimately swelled to thousands (five of them, including Ogiso, center, are pictured here). The biggest challenge was the battery — too small and it would lack power, too large and it would overheat. In 1995, the first prototype ran for 330 ft. (100 m) before going dead... Time: Heroes of the Environment

10-19-2007, 06:09 PM	#2
Tideland Prius Moderator of the North Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 19,606 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: N/A Package: Technology Package (Canada) Thanks: 227 Thanked 343 Times in 242 Posts Friends: 23	Not sure why you posted twice. Should I delete the first one?

10-19-2007, 10:17 PM	#4
V8Cobrakid Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: hell Posts: 2,894 My Car: 2004 Prius Model: N/A Package: #9 Thanks: 9 Thanked 18 Times in 18 Posts Friends: 5	priuschat.. lagging? no way!?