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But for the mean time, feel free to continue making crappy Yukons.]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
I just wished that someone would start SELLING their concepts.]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/On a playground was where I spent most of my days...]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 22nd 2008 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/say wha?]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/215 All Day!]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
then explain how high school kids are somehow able to engineer a vehicle that scientists and engineers at large auto manufacturers still have not perfected.

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It's really not that hard, which is why it's so hard to understand why Detroit can't get with this century.]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
Hybrids:
Honda Civic
Chevy Silverado
Cadillac Escalade
Ford Escape
Honda Accord


And how does a gas or diesel hybrid canabalize automobiles that are already built and in the market? They cost more, and people have to decide if it's worth the extra expense.

Detroit can do it now, or go ahead and go bankrupt when Honda and Toyota run them out of business.]]>Mar 21st 2008 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
This is a political photo-op if you ask me.]]>Mar 22nd 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
i never knew specialized high schools existed in the US.]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
And they probably got funding and donations from sponsors and grants. My school was rolling in dough.]]>Mar 21st 2008 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
The car has RossTech Vag-Com stickers on the front bumper.

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Besides the Fresh Prince jokes, I saw one of their cars at the Philly Auto show. Hell, I could see myself driving one of those.

*cough* With a MOPAR 318 under the hood]]>Mar 21st 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Mar 21st 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/Big whoop... so they shoved a (bio-)diesel engine in a kit-car. How is this innovating?

Originally it was based of a Honda Accord. Now you can buy them in a turn-key version with a Ford motor. In other words; yes, they built a nice vehicle that was engineered very well by a bunch of engineers from the Czech Republic, now owned and sold by a Dutch company. I bet if you call them, they will deliver it from the factory with a flexfuel (i.e synthetic hoses) or diesel motor. all for around $70,000 the last time I checked.

http://www.k1roadster.nl/gb/home.php

Anyone else want to use my soapbox now :)
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I wasn't born and raised in Philly, but I live 2 blocks from Geno's now. SO OVERRATED!

Yawwwwwwwwn I've had maybe 3 in 12 years of living in Philly.

Ditto for Tastekakes. They REALLY suck.

What made you bring up cheesesteaks anyhow? No ones is discussing them here.

Is that all ya got????

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Guys, I can go to a hardware store, get a DC electric motor, and then just standard car batteries, and make a car move on that. Hell, 50mph is easy to accomplish that way.

Detroit stating that it would take the scientific endeavors of the planet to make an electric car reminds me of when the New York Times ran an article at the beginning of last century. In it they stated that "it take the combined efforts of scientists, philosophers, and engineers millions of years to create man made flight."

On the very same day far south of New York, someone by the last name of "Wright" wrote in his diary "we finished unpacking the last of the parts for the new machine."

What Detroit doesn't want you to know is that electric cars have been possible for more than a decade. They'll make sure to remind you that hybrids cost more than equivalent cars of the same size, but they'll neglect to mention that a fully loaded Prius is $24,000, and that you can deck out a Civic for that much, or an Accord (without the hybrid powertrain) into the $30,000 mark. Hence, the Prius is actually not that expensive.

I remember a conversation I had with a friend who said he would buy a Prius if it wasn't more expensive than "everything else." He then went out and bought a Toyota Avalon, which, counter to his statements, starts above the price of the Prius. He felt like a dumbass, I tell you...]]>Mar 21st 2008 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
and big up to all the haters and eventual bandwagon riders

nice to hear WP in the news for a different kind of bullet]]>Mar 21st 2008 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/west-philly-high-preps-plug-in-hybrid-in-bid-for-auto-x-prize/
You must have gone to this high-school, yo.

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