Edmunds' Green Car Advisor reports:
I know I'm supposed to be all excited about this, but frankly, it's hard to muster up much more than a heartfelt "hooray" and a litle skip and mabe half-a-jump about Toyota's plug-in Prius with its advanced lithium-ion battery.
That's not to say it's not a nice piece of work - just that the Prius package is so familiar that even with extended all-electric range it really doesn't seem most of the time as though you are doing anything out of the ordinary.
I'm down in San Diego for a Toyota sustainability seminar and have just completed about 40 miles around the beach community of La Jolla in a trio of blue mica metallic Priuses with "plug in hybrid" logos on one front quarter panel and trap doors hiding a J1772 charger connector on the other.
They seem to do everyting Toyota has said its PHEV will do, including powering down the freeway at a steady 60 miles an hour in all-electric drive for a bit...
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