The first prius in the US was a 2001 Model Year, Wich as we all know came out in 2000. So that would be more like 5-6 years... if that is reasonable time or not I do not know IANAL
Where I am there is a section of that is on Village Power, the village set up a contract with the power company many years ago to provide power at a set price, they are still under that pricing and are paying significantly less for power. so to answer your question I have not heard of a municipality providing free electricity, but they sure do make it cheeper.
Who ever said anything about the parking system not having a safty system, In the toyota prius parking assist system you have to have your foot resting on the break for the system to engage. If you press the break further it will disengage the system and stop the car. this isen't something where you just set the car to park and get out.
The toyota auto parking feature on teh prius does have a manual override, in fact in order to function the driver must have their foot resting on the break, pressing the break further overrides the autopark and stops the car.
Priusonline.com has alot of infomation posted by regular owners of both the Prius and the civic hybrids. There is alot of talk about real world results with these cars
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Now is the time to change... I am sure people would much rather pay $1.06 per liter of gas than $4.00 a gallon
The first prius in the US was a 2001 Model Year, Wich as we all know came out in 2000. So that would be more like 5-6 years... if that is reasonable time or not I do not know IANAL
Where I am there is a section of that is on Village Power, the village set up a contract with the power company many years ago to provide power at a set price, they are still under that pricing and are paying significantly less for power. so to answer your question I have not heard of a municipality providing free electricity, but they sure do make it cheeper.
Who ever said anything about the parking system not having a safty system, In the toyota prius parking assist system you have to have your foot resting on the break for the system to engage. If you press the break further it will disengage the system and stop the car. this isen't something where you just set the car to park and get out.
The toyota auto parking feature on teh prius does have a manual override, in fact in order to function the driver must have their foot resting on the break, pressing the break further overrides the autopark and stops the car.
Priusonline.com has alot of infomation posted by regular owners of both the Prius and the civic hybrids. There is alot of talk about real world results with these cars