Hack your Prius, drive 100 miles on one gallon of gas »

Posted by: KeithMcDuffee 2 years, 1 month ago

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A year and a half ago, a Monrovia, Calif., engineer hacked his Prius by replacing the battery with a lithium-ion version and adding a system that plugs into an ordinary 110-volt socket. Now the car gets roughly twice the gas mileage it gets with the typical battery.

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Dygital
July 14, 2006, 7:58 p.m.
I would like to add a "Use at your own risk" sticker to it. Recently, with a Dell Laptop in Osaka, JP; Lithium Ion battery caused an explosion on the laptop.
Good idea modding a Prius ;-)
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HaywireCustomGuitars
July 21, 2006, 7:49 a.m.
We need more people in America like him crossing the border every day!