Driving Cross Country in a 2013 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Prototype

Reader Contribution by Caleb D. Regan And Christian Williams
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<p>Immediately following the 2011 MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, my colleague Christian Williams and I were given the opportunity of driving cross country in the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid prototype. We drove the Plug-In Prius from Seven Springs to Lawrence, Kan., home of Bryan Welch, Publisher and Editorial Director of Ogden Publications. </p>
<p>Once back in Kansas, the plan being that Bryan would put the hybrid plug-in car through its paces and offer our feedback to Toyota. (See <a title=”Test Driving Toyota’s 2013 Prius Plug-In and Loving It” href=”https://www.motherearthnews.com/green-transportation/toyota-2013-prius-plug-in” target=”_self”>Test Driving Toyota’s 2013 Prius Plug-In and Loving It</a>.)</p>
<p>Being a farm kid from southeast Kansas and a city boy from Chicago, we never imagined myself driving an electric car back from the East Coast – that’s part of what makes our jobs great.</p>
<p>Cindy Knight, public affairs manager with Toyota, offered us a quick tutorial on the inner workings of the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid: </p>
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