'Prius Going Greener'

Prius Going Greener

By Sam Heisin at 07/07/08 22:45

Toyota have already secured the title for having the first ever mass produced hybrid car in the world, the beautiful Toyota Prius. Since its debut in 1997, many have been fascinated by the car's feature that make it very useful in the current problem of the whole world about the high price of fuel.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency ranked the 2008 Prius as the most fuel efficient car in the country and probably in the whole world. Its's competitor in the United Kingdom, the MINI Cooper D gave it a good fight and tied with the Prius as the less CO2-emitting vehicle on sale.

Toyota unveiled its plan on making plug ins for the Prius hybrid giving GM's Chevy Volt a heavy competition. But the new Prius to be debuted on January 2009's Detroit Auto will be more appealing and probably will be more greener, with the Prius using solar panels.

The plan of putting solar panels on the roof of the Prius is definitely one of the greatest idea there is for a car. But everybody knows how expensive solar panels are, and we can't expect the Prius with solar panels will give it just for free.

The solar panels will not be use to run the whole car full time, a possible thing but for the moment, impossible to do. The solar panels will be used to run the air conditioning system, so it will save battery power instead of recharging the car battery for the use of the air con.

The Prius might run on lesser miles as compared to other cars, but your fuel savings would certainly be the best thing that counts for using the hybrid. Or live with the $4 gallon forever.

We own a 2008 Prius. Will we be able to use the panels, or does it have to be factory installed?

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