Avoiding the high price of gas
An outfit in Los Angeles plans to turn a Toyota Prius into even less of a gas guzzler.
If you are getting tired of the high price of gasoline, own a Toyota Prius and are fortunate enough to live in
, next year you will get a chance to reduce the costs associated with running the beast.
All thanks to Edrive Systems who have produced a commercially available plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) retrofit system for the vehicle that could bring its fuel consumption to 200 mpg, depending on your driving style and how far your travel.
Installations of the EDrive system are currently being done on a demonstration basis only. But the company is planning to establish a production facility for the system, and once it has, will set pricing and a production schedule for the system. But the cost of conversion is likely to be under $12,000 and the systems will be installed in customer’s vehicles by trained personnel at another outfit – LA-based Clean-Tech.
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