Prius Technology Faked or Not!?
September 3, 2009 2:24 PM   Subscribe

Prius Technology Fake or not?

Just today I crossed these two articles and could not believe it, Prius/Hybrid technology is not originated by Toyota.

What do you think? Anybody can dismiss or support it!
Thank you!

http://www.leftlanenews.com/toyota-loses-hybrid-technology-patent-appeal.html

http://green.autoblog.com/2009/01/02/so-you-think-toyota-invented-the-modern-hybrid-think-again?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_autobloggreen
posted by xmradio03 to Travel & Transportation (3 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure this question makes sense or fits here. -- jessamyn

 
You're misreading the articles. Those aren't saying that the technology is fake, or that Toyota didn't originate the Prius.

While Toyota was the first to market with a mass-produced gas/electric hybrid auto, auto manufacturers and inventors have been developing (and patenting) hybrid motors and the technologies surrounding them for decades, and some of the technologies used in the Prius have been around for a while. Paice LLC patented a computer controller for hybrid autos, and the courts agreed that Toyota's design was similar enough to Paice's patent for Paice to claim damages.

This happens all the time. Inventors were simultaneously working on televisions, radios and phones half-way around the world from each other when the first mass-market versions of each appeared. Few good ideas exist in a vacuum.
posted by eschatfische at 2:30 PM on September 3, 2009


. . . and this isn't really a question
posted by Think_Long at 2:35 PM on September 3, 2009


I found this website, what do you all think of it? isn't really an AskMe thing.

The right place to post that sort of thing is in the regular MetaFilter, where it'll also get deleted before anyone answers.
posted by rokusan at 2:37 PM on September 3, 2009


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