Aug
13
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
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The RSS renderer has been updated to produce RSS feeds of the front page with clickable links. Sorry I'm still trying to work out images and other features, e.g. videos. I was able to get the full intros to work this time. Next full features and full posts.
The feed is online now.
Thanks for your patience wile I work on getting feeds to an acceptable level of functionality.
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Aug
11
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Saturday, 11 August 2007 |
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Just a quick update:
Today I took Waldo and GA-21 to get to Columbia, South Carolina from Gainesville, Florida and only used half a tank of gas in my 2004 Toyota Prius! I forgot that I told the navigation system to take a different route. After I crossed the Florida-Georgia border, I started going with the flow speed wise (75 miles an hour isn't enough to satisfy people anymore), and let cruise control take over the accelerator; that was a big mistake, the darned cruise control (CC) program doesn't understand that hills aren't infinitely tall. Before CC took over, I had managed 58 miles per gallon from Depot Road to the FL-GA border, a route comprised of city, highway, Waldo (speed trap), and interstate driving. Today's shout outs are after the jump ...
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Aug
10
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
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On the drive back to Gainesville, FL, from Columbia, SC, once again, I used less than one tank of gas. When I rolled back onto the farm, the gas gauge read three pips. I exceeded both the old and new EPA ratings for the vehicle at 55.2MPG averaged over 462 miles. By looking at the distance travelled, you can also see I took a couple of wrong turns, more on that later in this write-up. Normally in these types of articles I give shout outs to all the hybrids I encountered but this drive was really draining and I knew from the first sighting I would not remember them all. No I could not write them down, I was driving, though next time I may keep a scratch pad and write down a letter code and tally them up (ex. HAH, HCH P, CP, RX, Cam, HH, etc. [Honda Accord Hybrid, Honda Civic Hybrid, Prius, Classic Prius, rx400h, Camry hybrid, Highlander Hybrid]).
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Aug
07
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
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"That little car can't hold enough stuff for me to drive to and from work every day." I hear this comment all the time about the Prius hatchback. I counter with this photo gallery after the jump.
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Jul
31
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 |
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Sunday, my brother and I went to Orlando for my birthday, I once again had the pleasure of travelling an extended distance with some nice hybrid owners.
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Jul
09
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
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This is an oldie, I know but its worth watching again. This video from the History Channel shows the AC Propulsion TZero, handing a Dodge Viper its internal combustion accessories. Electric Vehicles have all of their torque from a standstill whereas an internal combustion vehicle hast to spin up to an appreciable speed to generate the same kinds of torque. People were still surprised in the present day when my Prius was pulling appreciable times in the quarter mile with the ambient temperature at 90 degrees fahrenheit. These kind of demonstrations help to show that you don't have to be able to hear a vehicle 1/4 mile away for it to have a fair amount of power packed away. Lets not forget that all of that noise is waste energy just like the waste heat, energy that could have been used to propel the vehicle or just conserved.
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Jul
07
2007
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Written by Kacey Green
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
After hearing about Al Gore III and the speeding Prius, and with Race Night 3 still fresh in his mind; My brother wasn't taking any chances riding with me.
As yet another tale of celebrity spawn gone wild, the arrest Wednesday of Albert Gore III - son of the former vice president - on suspicion of drug possession was routine except for one rather mind-blowing detail: Gore was clocked in a blue Toyota Prius hybrid traveling on the southbound 5 Freeway in Orange County in excess of 100 mph. "One hundred and five, actually," said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.
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