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Plugin Battery Recharge in 5 Minutes?

Get $1.00 for every battery vaporware that comes down the pike, & you might retire

That said, both Isreal & Samsung think it has so much promise, that both find the chemistry to be worthy of investment.

Electric cars could charge in 5 minutes if this tech takes off - Fortune

One can't help but entertain the thought of whether such a battery would be the death knell of the gas car as we know it. Probably not ... but it'd sure be likely to put a dent in the ICE industry. Oh ... and so as not to disappoint Bisco ... yes, we could kiss the hydrogen hoax-mobile good bye .... buahahahahahaa !!

hill Aug 24, 2015 Read More Replies: 33

SPOTTED! UNWRAPPED 2016 Prius spotted this morning!

From 2017 Toyota Prius: This Is It

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Sporin Aug 21, 2015 Read More Replies: 1,101

Toyota sold 8 million hybrids!

Toyota City, Japan, August 21, 2015―Toyota Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada likes to tell the story of how his team couldn't get the first Prius prototype to move for 49 days. According to him, "We had no idea what was wrong, so we worked late every night trying to figure it out. We finally got it to move around Christmas time, but it only went 500 meters!"

That was back in 1995, when hybrid cars were unproven, experimental machines with a very unclear future. Fast-forward twenty years, and Toyota is proud to announce that it has now sold over 8 million hybrid vehicles1, with just 10 months between this and the last million-unit milestone.

It can be hard to get a sense of what the number 8 million might mean for the environment and for hybrid owners. For a bit of context, Toyota calculates that as of July 31, its hybrid vehicles have resulted in approximately 58 million fewer tons2 of CO2...
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Sergiospl Aug 21, 2015 Read More Replies: 1