Why wait for the plug-in Prius? Make your own [economist.com]
PRIUS owners are a lot like Macintosh fans. They appreciate the product’s clean design, ingenious packaging, user friendliness and clever engineering. Also like many Macintosh owners, few Prius drivers feel an urge to open the hood and dirty their hands making it go further, faster or do things the manufacturer never dreamed of. Both bought their prized possessions simply to do a job—and to do it straight out of the box with a minimum of fuss.
