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Re:Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lit... by Syonyk on Sunday June 06, 2021 @03:46PM (#27415724)
Nah, that's just boring. Go with a diesel Insight. There have been a few diesel swaps on the 1st gen Insights that manage the same or better fuel economy than the gas hybrid version.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38291/this-2000-honda-insight-...

The Honda hybrid tech of that time is a lot easier to swap engines on. A Prius has the motors in the transmission, so it's harder to simply bolt a new engine on. You'd have to either drive the transaxle with your own control algorithms, or figure out another way to make it behave with a different engine. The Honda electric motor was on the engine crankshaft, and you could get the Insight with a manual transmission, so it's really just "bolt in the motor and go."

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Re:Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lit... by CRConrad on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:56AM (#27492641)
But of course you'd get a diesel Prius or Insight only to be "rolling coal" with it.

EDIT: Sorry, only watched the YouTube clip now -- OMG, seems that was the purpose! Sheesh, you think you're making an obviously absurd jokey take on something... America, you never (cease to) disappoint.

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