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Priustoric: GM Builds a Plug-In Hybrid ... in 1969

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by zenMachine, Sep 17, 2008.

  1. zenMachine

    zenMachine Just another Onionhead

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    The concept car with the cumbersome designation XP-883 was nothing more than an experiment relegated to history, but it worked a lot like the Toyota Prius and Saturn Vue plug-in hybrids the two companies are working on today. It was sufficiently ahead of its time for Popular Science to call it "radical" and ask, "wouldn't it be great to have a car that changed from electric drive for use around town to gasoline power for highway driving?"

    "It makes so much sense," the magazine wrote in July, 1969, "that we feel they're missing a bet if they don't put it in production

    The XP-883 looked like an Avanti hatchback or the AMC Gremlin's prettier sister. At 122.2-inches long, 57.3-inches wide and 46.3-inches high, it was a little bigger than a Smart ForTwo and a little smaller than a Honda CRX. It had a fiberglass body for light weight, but just what it weighed has been lost to history.

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    Ogo Prius Owner since 2008

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    Interesting.
    But if I remember correctly also modern Prius was basically built from concepts Toyota developed in 1970's during oil crisis. So basically car industry is sort of reinventing old things these days. Cheap oil was the culprit that those designs were forgotten for decades ...
     
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    Looks like a golf cart with a small car body on it.
     
    #3 patsparks, Sep 17, 2008
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    Here's the artwork I have filed:

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    Like I mentioned when I 1st posted it a few weeks ago ... they've been milkin' this cow for what ... 4 decades now? :p
     
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