If you happen to be the owner of a Toyota Prius, or any other battery-packed hybrid car, you can use it as a surprisingly effective emergency generator. After a storm knocked out power in his ...

Last year's East Coast power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy illustrated just how much we rely on electricity in our daily lives. Virtually everything we rely on day to day requires power. No power ...

You know those little train sets you used to have as a kid? They usually come with an alternative current to continuous current converter that you could use to power every other electric motor in a ...

If necessity is the mother of invention, then this idea of using a Prius as an "emergency generator" to provide power for your critical electrical needs is a creative solution. Not being an expert in ...

Electric vehicle charging has been a hot topic for years, but it's mostly been a one-way discussion: how the EV charges from a given home charging system. Toyota turns the conversation around, ...