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GliderGuider

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Mon Feb-19-07 09:35 AM
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49. For me there would be two key features

Plug-in recharging, and never having the ICE run if there is sufficient battery power to drive the car.

A company in California named CalCars is doing plug-in conversions for the Prius, but plug-in recharge capability is proving slow to deploy commercially, probably because the recharge time on a high-capacity battery is too long. I'm no expert on battery technology, so I'm not sure about the lifespan of high capacity batteries under the repeated deep-discharge conditions that such a configuration would present.

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