There's a pretty big thread going over in the PriusChat Forums regarding the announcement of the Nissan Leaf EV.  We won't go into too much, but will give the general overview:

The July sales numbers are in, and they are looking very good for the Toyota Prius.  Prius sales jumped 48% from June 2009 to July 2009, and 30% from the year-ago month.  The July sales were the best-ever for the Prius, and were surely fueled by the positive word of mouth created by PriusChat forum members like you.  Keep up the good work!

Were you one of the over 19,000 new Prius owners in July?

I received a note from Adam Vaughan, Deputy Editor for the Guardian, that he's looking for current Prius owners who want to have a look at the 2010 Prius and be quioted in a story to run later this week.  Any UK PriusChatters who want to take him up on the offer?

Here's his note:

Would you be interested in a hybrid with the exterior of a MR2 and the interior of a Prius?  The rumor mill is heating up lately with more news of the rumored Prius coupe that I told you about back in March.  The "Prius Coupe" will carry the same 1.8 2ZR-FXE engine that the 2010 Prius has, but it will bump up the horsepower to 136 ponies.  In order to compete with the upcoming Honda CR-Z, the Prius Coupe (MR2) will be a 2+2 seating configuration.

Many of you don't know, but we've been spending the last couple of weeks closing on a new house and moving the PriusChat Empire to it's new home in Charlotte, North Carolina.  After a week of water leaks and other homeowner-related joys, my Macbook hard drive crashed on me yesterday.  

No worries, though.  Installed a new one last night and ran my Time Machine backup from about 10 minutes before the hard drive went kaput.  Now I'm good to go.

Back to our regularly scheduled PriusChat programming!

Now the action is starting to pick up as Prius Drive Thru makes their way into Madison for the Green Drive Expo.

Here is video from Day 3 of the Prius Drive Thru Summer tour across America.  Looks like Russell and crew are going through some beautiful parts of the US.

I'm a little behind on posting these due to the recent move, so here I am catching up. This is video from Prius Drive Thru's trip across America - Day 2 Toledo to Racine

Lexus Announces Pricing for New 2010 HS250h, World’s First Hybrid-Only Luxury Vehicle

Here's Day 1 video from the Prius Drive Thru trip across America.

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