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Toyota introduces 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid

Green Car Congress

The production plug-in hybrid has a number of key changes from the 125 prototype demo units that were deployed in the field for testing and customer feedback. The demo units defaulted to EV mode. The engine also uses an electrically driven air conditioning compressor and water pump to reduce mechanical losses.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

The Oregon Trail came out in 1971 and is still with us.) Previously, land between airports had been represented by patches of color—green for forests, gray for urban, blue for water. Test lead Hal Bryan says the effort demanded long hours for testing various 3D accelerators, which had yet to settle on common standards.

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