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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

Plugs and Cars

Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car. UPDATE: Felix Kramer of Calcars informs me that the vacuum bottle is standard on 2004-2008 Prius.) Third party converters have spent time and resources tweaking their plug-in hybrids to meet ARB testing written with gasoline-only hybrids in mind.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

They were not widely used, but for some reason the surplus store had a big box of them. We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. Then, I found some gyros at a surplus electronics warehouse—single axis piezoelectric devices originally made for camcorders and computer mice.