Hi,
I haven't gotten to flow the thread yet.
It turned out that 'the prius' guy needed a work space to swap batteries
between two Prius cars, and he used my place to do that.  He drove here in
one, someone dropped off the other is how I think it went.

in any case, I got to help wrestle a heavy battery about the size and shape
of a large suitcase out of the back of the prius's ....the additional
battery and whatever else it takes to make it into a plug-in Hybrid, not
just a 'drive-to-charge  hybrid".
  another interesting and odd thing learned is there is a conventional 12
volt car size battery in the right rear corner of the car  that is just used
to run the dash and the 'normal' eectrical stuff ...and if that battery
wears out or fails, the car will crank on the starter from it's propulsion
batteries  but not fire up.

Vanagon content ? ..this is so we can start visuaalizing and planning on
making  plug-in hybrid vanagons that get 45 mpg, or more.

( Prius ain't got no soul though, no spunk/charisma,  if you ask me though.
But vanagons sure do !  )

Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: HHO Kits

> At 10:05 AM 4/18/2011, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
>>I suspect that Scott meant the Prius accompanied the Vanagon to the
>>shop, to ferry the Vanagon driver away.
>
> Slap head...
>
> d