sobayimage
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I am not quite sure what I saw today and maybe Toyota USA is trying to hide it in plain site. This is pure speculation but maybe there is an all electric Prius coming. There were three Toyotas parked next to each other in a Torrance Best Buy parking lot today, this is not unusual in it self. One was a Prius, one a plug-in Prius and one next to that was a Toyota pick up with a large commercial Honda 220 volt 30 amp generator running in the back. The generator was charging the plug-in Prius. There are available two public charging stations less than half a mile away, in each direction. So why was the generator in the pick up charging it ?
The thing that set me off to wondering if there was more to that just three Toyotas parked next to one another was the dealer license plate frames. In California there is a great competition between dealerships and each one likes to put its name on the top of the plastic frame, some even put their phone number on it. All of the cars had the same frame with just Toyota on the top and the Toyota USA slogan “Moving Forward” on the bottom. This is a sign these are Toyota corporate cars. The plug-in Prius was about six months old and had HOV stickers and otherwise looked quite normal. If this was a regular plug-in Prius and the battery ran out, it’s my understanding, the gas engine would take over unless this Prius had no gas engine only an electric motor.
If Toyota was testing an all electric Prius they would likely want generator truck follow it around and then again all I saw were three Toyotas parked next to one another.
The thing that set me off to wondering if there was more to that just three Toyotas parked next to one another was the dealer license plate frames. In California there is a great competition between dealerships and each one likes to put its name on the top of the plastic frame, some even put their phone number on it. All of the cars had the same frame with just Toyota on the top and the Toyota USA slogan “Moving Forward” on the bottom. This is a sign these are Toyota corporate cars. The plug-in Prius was about six months old and had HOV stickers and otherwise looked quite normal. If this was a regular plug-in Prius and the battery ran out, it’s my understanding, the gas engine would take over unless this Prius had no gas engine only an electric motor.
If Toyota was testing an all electric Prius they would likely want generator truck follow it around and then again all I saw were three Toyotas parked next to one another.