Toyota Prius, NOW WITH SOLAR.
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Sure, sure, if you’re up on the latest in Prius add-ons you know that you can retrofit your Prius with a solar panel for the roof for around 4-6k, but now Toyota is planning on selling this alternative power source as an option. I’m very excited about this trend. Now if they would just sell it to me with a plug-in option, I would definitely line up to buy one. In the meanwhile I’ve pre-registered for this cool trike from Venture One that is backed by BMW and is supposed to 33x safer in a crash than normal motorcycles. Plus it gets 100mpg and the body of the trike rotates while the vehicle is in a turn. Yeah, it’s a two seater but I don’t plan on adding munchkins to my lifestyle any time soon.
Here’s a new report on the VentureOne, but it’s for the one-seater. I’m looking at the two-seater. I think it’s supposed to sell for $20k:
The important thing to me is that it has a range of a 300 miles and can do up to 120MPH.