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Plugging in to hybrids' extra power
With the backdrop of a nation caught in the grip of skyrocketing fuel prices, a San Carlos auto repair shop is trying to become the first on the Peninsula to convert Toyota Priuses and possibly other hybrids to ...
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The press is propagating misleading hype about plug-in hybrids being "green." In a recent Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Tech Alert, testing was reported that shows the plug-in Prius making worse pollution than a conventional hybrid. Why? A catalytic convertor must be hot to work; in a plug -in hybrid the convertor does not get hot enough to work properly.
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