The Pennsylvania based Lithium Technology Corporation recently demonstrated a new type of "plug-in" Toyota Prius hybrid car. The new model is based on advanced lithium iron phosphate battery which allows the hybrid car to travel up to a distance of 125 miles per gallon of fuel – making it possibly the most efficient mass-produced car in the world.

This thing is amazing! Perhaps I need to jump on the hybrid trend and get me one of these. With a 70 mile round trip commute, this thing Prius could save some serious money.

Let see...

70 miles per day x 5 days per week = 350 miles per week
350 miles per week x 50 weeks = 17,500 miles in work commute
My car gets about 17 miles to the gallon (highway). So that works out to 1030 gallons of gas devoted to my work commute.
The corner gas station has regular unleaded at $3.07/gallon.
So in a year, I spend about $3,162 on gas for my commute.

If I were to get this Prius.

17,500 commuting miles / 125 miles per gallon = 140 gallons of gas
That is only $430 per year in gas!!!

So in a year, I could save over $2700 if I had this Prius.

That's just crazy!

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