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Jul 4, 2008 4:25 pm US/Pacific

UC Davis Professor Invents Hybrid Conversion Kit

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Andrew Luria
DAVIS (CBS13) ― The national average for a gallon of unleaded stands at $4.10, the cost in California is $4.56, and in Sacramento its $4.47. Think about if your dollar could go six times farther in your car.

U.C. Davis engineering professor Andy Frank has been working on the technology to convert everyday cars into vehicles that can go dozens of miles before using a single drop of gasoline.

At that point, a car would go off gas at around 40 miles a gallon.

Frank started this work nearly 30 years before gas prices ever reached the $4 mark.

So, how do you power up?

"You plug in, that's it," says Frank.

Professor Frank thinks within the next year or so you might be able to make this change by driving into a conversion center.

For the conversion kit that Frank hopes to mass produce, the cost will be around $10,000. With gas around $4.50 a gallon, it'll average between three and four years to recoup that cost. But the higher gas goes, the shorter that recoup becomes.

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