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I had my first real occasion to flog the Prius, and have to say I was pretty impressed. I generally drive the Prius pretty sedately, really...
I think this is an excellent point. A lot of people say not to trust the gas gauge. I interpret the situation exactly the opposite way. Trust...
At least you didn't pay $2000 for the Nav system in a Ford Escape :D As I understand the screen is even smaller, you have to use a joystick to...
I completely agree. My plan is to do a cal-cars conversion, then start working on an improved version such that by the time my lead acid pack...
This is very interesting, and something I have been thinking about recently. My perception is that I get better mileage at ~40mph than I do at...
That sounds a lot more reasonable. The units are still wrong in my opinion, but as I suspected it appears this is just a difference between...
My point is that the folks at cal-cars have spent five years coming up with a low cost open source phev conversion process, which is finally just...
Sadly very true, although in this case I meant prove it to me if they want me to buy one Rob
Wow, you are the first person I've heard of jumping another car from the Prius. I'm really surprised it worked w/o blowing anything up! I think...
Boy, what I wouldn't give to get my hands on a copy of that software flash :D Rob
Therein lies the problem in my mind with using the Prius as a testbed. To my knowledge, no amount of battery capacity increase will result in...
I think we are all agreed, if this turns out to be true it would be great. We all want to see battery technology continue to move forward. My...
Thats good to know. My main point was that there has been a lot of marketing hype about "clean diesels" being a good alternative to hybrids, so...
Hate to stifle your creativity, but I don't think this will work either. As the 12V pack voltage runs down, the built in dc:dc converter will...
I would spend some time on: Prius PHEV - EAA-PHEV and on the mailing list associated with that page. A lot of these sorts of things have been...
I won't say this is total BS, but there are a lot of reasons to be highly skeptical. 1) Very poor quality presentation/website. Not what one...
Re: traction control?? snow?? as if the pious ownerrs knew Looks pretty tame compared to a few taxi rides I've been on... Rob
Sorry, I just realized there was an error in my CO2 calculation. The ratio was correct, but the numbers I had were only the mass of the carbon...
I was in pretty much the same position. We have a Land Rover Discovery (series 1) that we love for driving out in the desert. In the UK these...
Here's the Jetta gas vs. diesel: 2006 VW Jetta TDI vs. 2006 VW Jetta 2.5L 5cyl gas CO2 (g/mi): 305.58 vs. 399.45 (23.5% lower)...
