{"id":629,"date":"2007-09-25T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/phev-groundswell\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T08:10:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T15:10:33","slug":"phev-groundswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/phev-groundswell\/","title":{"rendered":"PHEV: Groundswell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Montara Energy Ventures<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/PHEVplug.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of new plug socket in PHEV Prius\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAn interesting trend seems to be taking hold around vehicles like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyota.com\/prius\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Toyota&#8217;s Prius<\/a>, home-grown conversions from standard hybrid to plugin hybrid by adding battery power, a charger, and socket to plug the vehicle in for charging. The magazine GreenCar.com has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencar.com\/index.cfm?content=build_plugin_hybrid\" target=\"_blank\" >an interesting article about this phenomena<\/a>. It would seem that the public is going to drag the automakers along on this one (along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.org\/recharge\/\" target=\"_blank\" >a little pressure from the likes of Google<\/a>.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the attraction? 120+ MPG. Imagine getting over 1,100 miles on a single tank of gas. Watch the video below:<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9HjI1zPHUvI\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9HjI1zPHUvI\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published at Montara Energy Ventures. An interesting trend seems to be taking hold around vehicles like Toyota&#8217;s Prius, home-grown conversions from standard hybrid to plugin hybrid by adding battery power, a charger, and socket to plug the vehicle in for charging. The magazine GreenCar.com has an interesting article about this phenomena. It would seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}