Probably a plug in hybrid concept.  100 mpg would be fine with me.  At
that point even at $5 per gallon you are looking at a per mile cost of
around $0.04 per mile which puts us back to gas being cheap again.  Not
sure what the cost of plugging in your car overnight would be but from
what I have read it is supposed to be "pennies".  The new battery I have
been whining about for the last couple of years is finally in the
pipeline as well.  I recently read an article about a guy at MIT (I
believe) who has figured out a way to make the Li-ion batteries last 10
times longer!  It has something to do with nano-tubes of graphite but
the short of it is that this could actually make the electric car viable
and the plug in hybrid a car that could go even farther on a tank of
gas.  Necessity is the mother of invention as they say.  I just hope all
of this tech starts to mature before they figure out a way to drop a
gallon of gas back down to $2 per gallon or it will all evaporate again.

Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com

John Rodgers wrote:
> Was watching a congressional energy hearing on C-Span Saturday and in
> the discussion came this whopper of an announcement. - "Friday, Toyota
> announced a new car is in design that will be capable of 500 miles per
> gallon of fuel". There was no discussion about this, it was just
> mentioned in passing as part of the conversation on another issue, but
> it sure caught my attention.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>