Well, the show is over. I did my part for Hybrid Car Awareness. If I had a dollar for every time I was asked
"Do you plug it in?", "How much does it cost?" and "I've heard the batteries go bad every three years and they cost $5,000 to replace" I'd have enough money for gas for a few months.
I'd call it a
HUGE success. I wish there would of been some other makes to show other hybrid systems. I did my best to describe Toyota's system. I had people waiting in line to ask questions. Pretty cool. Having the cars together helped a lot, it showed people not all hybrids look weird - something I hear quite a bit. The reader boards I made helped as well. (The Insight board is in the shared section)
Here are a few pics - I added a "Current Mileage is XXX over XXX miles" - that got a lot of WoWs and is what started the questions IMO, even though I have real bad handwriting (no, don't say serial killer
). I tried to sell how enviromentaly concious they are but not too many listened about that. I'm happy I went - no I didn't win this time
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helterskelter683 (MICHAEL), I wish you could of showed up too. I had to leave the cars for about 3 hours to assist judging some other cars and left some friends from work and my parents to answer questions. That might have ended up as The Blind Leading The Blind.
