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Prius Owner Powers His Home With His Car

zoomilife.com — A Massachusetts man - faced with no power in the recent ice storm, powered up the family Prius to create electricity: The hybrid car made enough electricity to run the essentials; the fridge, the lights, the TV, the wood-stove fan.

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  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -0/+11Now Toyota can start making batteries for the home
  • acmaurer, on 01/06/2009, -0/+8Woah! I first thought it said he used his home to power his car - but this is ten times more impressive!
  • doiveo, on 01/06/2009, -0/+7Makes sense, it's basically a generator with seats and cup holders.
  • emecks, on 01/07/2009, -0/+2Of course TV is an essential, does nobody play scrabble in power cuts anymore?

    Other than that, impressive :)
  • Maddoktor2, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1The power companies aren't going to like this...
  • AmyVernon, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1All generators should come that way.

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