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Toyota Prius Design Team

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by zenMachine, Oct 19, 2007.

  1. zenMachine

    zenMachine Just another Onionhead

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    "We had to invent something completely original," says Satoshi Ogiso, executive chief engineer for Toyota's product-planning division. "We'd have to build it from scratch, blueprint and all."

    Easier planned than done. Ogiso's 10-person team ultimately swelled to thousands (five of them, including Ogiso, center, are pictured here). The biggest challenge was the battery — too small and it would lack power, too large and it would overheat. In 1995, the first prototype ran for 330 ft. (100 m) before going dead...

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    #1 zenMachine, Oct 19, 2007
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    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Not sure why you posted twice. Should I delete the first one?
     
    #2 Tideland Prius, Oct 19, 2007
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tideland Prius @ Oct 19 2007, 05:09 PM) [snapback]527923[/snapback]</div>
    Actually I didn't post twice. The server hung when I hit submit, and I just let it sit.
    But when it returned two posts appeared. Ghost in the machine?
     
    #3 zenMachine, Oct 19, 2007
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    priuschat.. lagging? no way!?
     
    #4 V8Cobrakid, Oct 19, 2007
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    How often do we get to use the phrase, "insufficiently revolutionary"?
     
    #5 TonyPSchaefer, Oct 20, 2007
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