CNN: 250 miles per gallon? They’re doing it – Aug 15, 2005

While the title is a bit misleading, the article has a good point. This is something the auto industry has resisted for a long time. If you mostly do light commuting and you’re handy with electronics, this might be a good project for you. Perhaps now that a few people are trying this, the industry will wake up and start offering this as an option on some of the current hybrids. One can only hope…

Here is a link to the Prius+ site on Yahoo Groups. The guy mentioned in the above story is a member of this group which has done a lot of work on Prius PHEV conversions. Check it out..

The space shuttle Discovery has made it’s way safely back to Earth. Congratulations to the Crew and to NASA for a job well done! Let’s hope they can get the last few problems fixed and get these old birds flying again.