Plug-in Prius with Lithium-ion batteries

Plug-in Prius with Lithium-ion batteries

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• Plug-in
• Prius
• with
• Lithium-ion
• batteries

[liveoilfree]

Our electric to charge the RAV-EV is FREE, because we already paid for our solar rooftop system with money we saved from NOT buying gasoline for over 500,000 miles on EV1, RangerEV, HondaEV, and Toyota RAV4-EV.

[gabe2552]

I get my electricity from a rooftop. that doesnt cost a thing. I wish my prius would be plug in already.

[mindthoughts1974]

My 2000 Honda insight gets more miles per gallon than any other hybrid mass produced to date, in the USA. Miles per gallon have only gone down, from the first hybrid sold in America. My lifetime mpg is 67mpg and my 2000 insight has 322,000 miles on it.

[MikeStone05]

This probably explains why the oil companies had raised up the gas prices to nearly $5.00 per gallon, because they know that the electric vehicles are gonna take over in the future coming years, therefore squashing out gasoline.

[twinwillow]

Prius is coming out with an electric plug in/hybrid in early 2012. It's on my list.

[urbex2007]

4kW to charge, so in the UK that is roughly 50p for 30miles. I pay £1.14 per gallon of diesel and that takes me 55miles in the town and 72miles at 60mph on a motorway. Cost of a conversion is £3000 and cost of a used Prius is £17000. So £20000 in total. Cost of a used 1.6tcdi Ford Focus = £8000, which leaves £12000 over. It will take a VERY long time to pay that for diesel ! That's why it isn't worth it. Diesel technology left the Toyota Prius standing 20years ago, the prius is dead & gone...

[urbex2007]

4kW to charge, so in the UK that is roughly 50p for 30miles. I pay £1.14 per gallon of diesel and that takes me 55miles in the town and 72miles at 60mph on a motorway.

[kooch555]

good for you guys..live oil free..but what kind of performance do you get from your hybrids? we have the same dream...oil-free..but don't you still pump gas?? just less often?? isn't that still sending cash overseas??...consider CNG...all domestic..we have 100 years worth of natural gas..

[Spitphire3]

The Pentagon just release that $1 trillion dollars worth of lithium was discovered in Afghanistan recently. Now I'm no conspiracy theorist, but that seems like a nice little profit. Controlling Afghanistan, like we've been trying to do for nine years, might make us the controllers of next gen power similar to the Saudis with oil. So is "green" energy and global warming about the environment or money and power?

[seaplaneguy1]

liveoilfree,

Do you have more details on "electric" ecomomy of a plug in Prius or whatever you were quoting?

1000 miles/ 250 kwh times 34 kw-hr/gallon = 136 miles/ gallon.

Do you have it for 30 mph, 50 mph 70 mph and stop and go city driving?

[turboshagna]

@TehMG Lithium is mega recyclable and the energy used to create them and create the electricity to charge them down the power lines from coal is more green than refining transporting and burning gas/petrol. Even if the lithium is not recyclable the new ones dont pollute like older types of batteries. That's why people are doing this if they can afford it

[liveoilfree]

For the average drive of 1000 miles per month, it takes 250 kWh on average; that's about a third of the use of the average home, about what two old beerboxes use.  It can be generated by a 1.3 kW solar system, 6 to 12 sq. yards, or about 9' by 12'.