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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

But no matter where we went, we could not escape one thing: the goddamn thermostat. Then, magically, Matt Rogers, who’d been one of the first interns on the iPod project, reached out to me. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade. A startup was not the plan. The plan was a break. A long one. People loved it.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Both Toyota and Ford are now producing a few prototype conversions of their own Priuses and Escapes for research purposes.)

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