Fold your tent and move on GM, you have officially lost. This announcement of the Prius triumph combined with soaring gas prices, makes your autopsy iminent and also completely boring. Good riddance to lobbyist trash.
And 52 mph out of the Prius electric motor alone in the conversion version.
A bit bigger electric motor and a decent battery (40 to 60 mile electric range)would make the Prius plugin conversion a complete solution to GHG from cars and peak oil.
Hypercar parts for the Prius, carbon fiber body panels, doors, hood and so forth would really make it even better. But of course, being a conversion of an already expensive new car it isn't affordable.
Will a Barack administration give a green light to toyota plugins? I still think darth cheney is behind toyota's delay of plugin technology.
An ultralight, very low power, plugin hybrid, with a 40 hp electric motor and 12 hp backup generator would be the real hypercar to beat if it were mass produced. Chinese companies have to be thinking about this right about now.
What about Honda leapfrogging toyota with a design like this? Do it or go the way of GM, Honda.
BTW, I think this spells the death of the US owned auto industry. Too slow Lutz. You are a complete moron.
