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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do. He rode up, and stopped for a moment, and said jokingly, “Wow!