<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Join EAA (Electric Auto Association) and get a 10% discount on your plug-in kit to make your Prius hybrid a part-time electric car. Forty miles without using gas ain't bad if you realize that most of us don't go more than that to get to work and back. And it can be plugged into your house at night for off-hours cheeeeap electricity! <div><br></div><div>Forget Toyota and its claim that "more research is needed" before anyone can make a plug-in hybrid! (There are far more than seven plug-in Priuses that have been running around the Bay Area for several years with "100+ mpg" on their sides!) Learn the truth about hybrids and electric cars from the EAA engineer-members and other techies who know what's what. Bay Area member Will Becket reported the results of a EAA member survey that showed that <b>8.5 million miles</b> have been driven by members and their all-electrics just on <b>California roads</b> since the ZEV mandate. EAA's newsletter (May 2008) also took on the erroneous recent report by USA Today that plug-in hybrids could cause more "deadly air pollution" than the non-plug-ins. (I will lend copies to interested Greens.)<div><div><br></div><div>Many EAA members have only a hybrid. Some have an all-electric Toyota RAV-4 and many have a converted-to-electric stock car like the Rampage pickup truck. Club members are good sources of info and are friendly to new members' questions, even from non-techie types like me! The cars show up at every meeting for inspection and for chatting with the owners. See <a href="http://www.eaaev.org">www.eaaev.org</a> for meeting locations, to drop and get acquainted?</div><div><br></div><div>If you're interested in how pricey an upgrade would be, the complete plug-in system for the Prius is $6,095 plus shipping. It uses the well-known and longtime-tested CalCars Basic Control board. Check out <a href="http://www.pluginsupply.com">www.pluginsupply.com</a> for a quick look-see. </div><div><br></div><div>A plug-in kit for a used Prius may be the next step I take from my hybrid Insight, with an eye on owning an all-electric car (soon, I hope).</div><div>Andrea</div></div></div></body></html>