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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" CalCars converted Priuses into a PRIUS+ at the 2006 and 2007 Maker Faire s. PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

In 2021, the IMU units you could buy off the shelf were pretty inexpensive and reliable. Hasbro thought that our balancing robot idea could become a great consumer product, so they made the investment to start turning Flexo into something that could be sold as a toy. On right, the first AMP prototype, called Glass Man, built in 2006.