Five Minute Review: Toyota Prius
by Roman Mica
November 13th, 2009 3:03 PM
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why, for all that's good and pure, will they not put a simple electrical plug in and on board trickle charger so that you can plug the thing in when you get home and leave every day with fully charged batteries thereby making it a true hybrid with 2 different fuel sources and not just a gizmo that takes gasoline and converts it to electricity.
zintradi writes why, for all that’s good and pure, will they not put a simple electrical plug in and on board trickle charger so that you can plug the thing in when you get home ? I don't think you get the purpose of this car. The Prius is not about the advantage of being an electric car but is all about being the advantage of an electric transmission. The Prius does not contain a storage battery for energy. Obviously because at 1.3Kw-hrs it stores only 50% more energy than your conventional 72 A-hr lead acid car battery. The storage battery in the Prius is there purely for power. It is able to supply 21kw for up to two minutes without destroying itself. Don't try that trick with your car battery it would probably boil the acid about the same time the terminals melt and the plates start buckling. Simply put the Prius is what it is despite the efforts of those who would try and PHEV it into an electric car. Sorry, not going to happen.
In order to implement the auto-parallel-parking-do-hickey, the guy doing the review had to do five seperate steps while the car beeped at him angrily before telling him he was in the wrong position, and then he had to start over. Is this really an improvrement over just doing it yourself? And that spraying washer fluid on the headlights thing is one of the dumbest gimmicks I've ever seen. The Prius's excessive, annoying gadgetry is laughable.