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2006/1/31-2/2 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:41613 Activity:nil
1/31    Hack your Prius to enable electrical only operation:
        http://www.calcars.org/prius-evbutton-install.pdf
        \_ It'll be better if they make the Prius pluggable.
           \_ there might be other issues which prevents Toyota from doing so,
              things like effect on the life of its batteries, etc.  no?
              Otherwise, it would be stupid for Toyota not to do this.
              \_ This is what makes me wonder about politicians getting
                 into the act recently.
              http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_VQPGRGD
                 \_ a cached copy somehwere?  economist is very expensive!
                    \_ /csua/tmp/economist.plug.and.play
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