So, we are now the owners of a new hybrid Prius!

[Hammer166]

I'll give @Mike credit, at least he understands when the hybrids pay off. You see way to many mental midgets buy them because the commute a lot of miles. At that point, you might as well buy a Yaris, as you're just running on the gas burner most of the time, and the battery weight is costing you fuel. But of course then you use lose the social status of being one who cares.

 

[Blood]

I'll give @Mike credit...

Are you nuts!?

He's at the top of my 'CASH ONLY' list.

 

[Tazz]

Aren't you the one with the sign "In God We Trust, the rest of you people pay cash!"

 

[krelithous]

 

[ironpony]

 

[gearjammer]

only 205 posts looks like Mike is getting off easy

 

[Tazz]

Well we didn't want to make him cry or nothing

 

[Duck]

Mike is going to grow a big bushy beard and start vaping now.

 

[Tazz]

And wear skinny jeans

 

[Mike]

Ever get the feeling that people are talking about you? Lol

 

[gearjammer]

Mike is going to grow a big bushy beard and start vaping now.

hey now there is nothing wrong with vaping

 

[gearjammer]

rumor has it Mike is now looking for a jet pack for short excursions but cannot find one that runs on batteries but still diligently looking

 

[Duck]

hey now there is nothing wrong with vaping

Of course not.

In fact, the Supreme Court just ruled that it's perfectly legal for two vapers to get mar....

Oh never mind.

 

[ironpony]

hey now there is nothing wrong with vaping

Its all relative...

 

[krelithous]

wonders when people will driving by with there heads hanging out the windows with there iphones going as well as the idiots in there fart cars will probily pull up next to him and start reving there engines and wanna race him

 

[Tazz]

So I was saw a Prius yesterday with a solar panel in the roof. I was curious how much it helped and went to find out about it and read this.

The Underwhelming Solar Prius

Toyota, it turns out, won’t even bother plugging its solar rooftop panel into the 2010 Prius’s nickel-metal-hydride battery. EVWorld editor Bill Moore, citing a conversation with Akihiko Otsuka, chief engineer for the Prius redesign, writes that

Toyota tried it and apparently discovered that for not-entirely-well-understood reasons, connecting the PV panels to the battery turns them into an “antenna” of sorts, which at the very least seems to disrupt the car’s radio.

 

[ironpony]

The wind-up key is the thingy on the trunk...

 

[mndriver]

I'm trying to understand what other kind of Prius is there other than a hybrid

 

[ironpony]

I'm trying to understand what other kind of Prius is there other than a hybrid

Junk...

 

[krelithous]

I'm trying to understand what other kind of Prius is there other than a hybrid

a tampon on wheels