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My name is Horacio Calvento and I'm an E.E. and technician in (almost) all trades, from Long Island New York, I manage an electronic repairs store in the area and I own a 2004 Prius. I'm a participant at Priuschat, CleanMPG and various Yahoo groups regarding Hybrids with the screen name of "MRBIGH".

I'm a co-founder of Long Island Prius Owners Group and an enthusiast on the PHEV field, doing my own car upgrades and mod. I became interested in PHEV after a lot of reading about and now using ( not very satisfactory) and extra Prius traction battery in my car with a novice switch over of packs and having a lot of / ! \ signs in the dash board. I came across Blue Prius thru the CalCars modification. Later I learned, while I was representing NY State in the 2006 Hybridfest in Madison WI, through another participant with an all electric vehicle, that your Blue was in the hands of (or better said, working with him) Rich Rudman and his Manzanita Micro hardware. I finally spoke with him yesterday for over an hour, July 31, and he give me some explanations of the actual hardware in use and the perspective of having a kit available soon, of which I'm interested to use based on my needs and $$$ availability. The extra traction Batt doesn't cut my cake and the BMS is a pain to figure out and crack down. So I would like to continue the updates and progress that Rich and you have in your Blue, to see if I can contribute with some things from the other side of the country and also to be a pioneer in the area having another PHEV hand made at a more reasonable cost than Hymotion that is not ready yet to do sales. The talk that they are doing some fleet doesn't add to the lack of data they need to present for real sales; at least, this is the impression given to me at Madison's event by their rep when I presented then with a future business/franchise proposition in the New York market