100 MILES/GALLON! THATS WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!

This is why they should never have abandoned the electric car.

How to hack a hybrid
For 'hybrid hackers' selling plug-in kits for the Prius, high gas prices add up to a big opportunity.
by David Kushner, Business 2.0 Magazine
July 13 2006: 9:19 AM EDT
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Rising gas prices and booming sales of the Toyota Prius mean a big opportunity for Pete Nortman. A year and a half ago, the Monrovia, Calif., engineer hacked his Prius by replacing the battery with a lithium-ion version and adding a system that plugs into an ordinary 110-volt socket.

After charging in the garage overnight, the souped-up Prius gets about 100 miles per gallon--roughly twice what a regular Prius gets at best. "This is just the beginning," Nortman says.

This post comes via Forbes Bagatelle Black, author of CEO VOLUME I--INITIATE OF THE NEW BUSHIDO and engineering executive at Aerovironment, Inc., the pioneering Monrovia & Simi Valley company founded by Paul MacCready, Discover Magazine's "Engineer of the 20th Century."

Forbes gives Nortman and this project his personal recommendation. That's good enough for me.