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title: "It's electric"
author: "Christopher S Penn"
date: 2007-05-13
url: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2007/05/its-electric/
categories:
  - "Me"
---

# It's electric

![Prius](https://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/89854208_cb7aceae5e_m.jpg "Prius")Yesterday we traded in our 2001 Hyundai Elantra for a new blue Prius. Very nice car, lots of goodies. A few things I've learned so far: - Coasting generates the most power. Regenerative braking is a bit of a misnomer - as long as the car is moving and you're not actively accelerating quickly, the car's generating power.

- Handles about as well as any 4 wheel, 4 cylinder sedan. Fine for me, probably would irritate performance-minded street racers.

- Lots of little hidden spaces all over - extra trunk well, dual glove compartment and much more. Very nice for hiding things.

- The aux input is a standard headphone jack - podcasting in my car!

- Podcast producers - be sure if you put your shows on CD in MP3 format that you use ID3 tags - the onboard display reads ID3 tags and displays them on the console.