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Toyota Mongrel X - Sexier Cousin to the upcomming 3rd Procreation Prius

I’ll grant entrance to it, I’m doubting of hybrids and their “environmental” good turn.  While they certainly relieve emissions and most importantly the hebdomadal cost of gas to the consumer, I don’t ponder we’ve verily thought out the environmental impulse of using a 150lb. laptop battery to might a vehicle, and then degree with the ramifications of its disposition. 

Either way though, hybrids will be the chief “gap technology” that moves us to sustainable transmission, if the market has anything to say about it.  And my beloved car website The Reality About Cars placed an amazing editorial juxtaposing two futurity contenders, The already well established Toyota “Cartoon Car” Prius and the upcomming Chevy “Sexy and Not Credit it” Volt.  Brief story, the Volt is a stopple in hybrid that would grant gas free walk for it’s first 30 miles.  The prius is a mongrel, which mixes might from a small fourbanger and a cyclops li-ion battery.

I will now, totally transcript this whole article, which was artfully crafted by Paul Niedermeyer

The cyclopean hybrid showdown is advent. GM Car Czar Bob Lutz has thrown down the gauntlet: “We are headed for the OK Corral.” In deed, GM has staked its repute on the Volt, intending to “leapfrog the Prius” and evoking America’s Apollo satellite-shot program. Meanwhile, Toyota continues its mastery of the alt power mindspace, finalizing their third procreation Prius. While we qualify for the clash of the hybrids, let’s take a closer gaze at the contenders…

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