Plug-In Hybrid by Toyota

July 26th, 2007 Alex

 UC Berkeley and UC Irvine will each get a Plug-in Hybrid for testing by Toyota.  The cars will look just like regular Priuses but will run on an electric motor that plugs into a regular 110-volt for charging overnight and will have a second nickel metal battery. There are aftermarket modifications that are done to Hybrids to make it into a plug-in hybrid, but this will be the first time that a carmaker will be developing an electric-gas hybrid car for the US. The cars can go up to 100 miles on a gallon of gas.

via SFGate

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