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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do. We were able to get a one-off project to build some little balancing Android Robots for Google, and tour them around to events like Google IO, Google Sandbox, and Google Zeitgeist in London.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-In Conversions Corp www.pluginconversions.com of Poway, near San Diego, CA converts the Toyota Prius using NiMH batteries and the EAA-PHEV open source control system, and will provide kits to qualified DIY installers. See also Hymotions comments on the subject. Pricing from $8-15,000 for installed low-speed EV range of 8-24 miles.

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