Christine and Scott Gable are hybrid auto and alternative fuel experts who have brewed their own biodiesel and traveled 125,000 miles on waste vegetable oil. Broadly speaking, an inverter is an ...

How would it feel to spend a year living in an RV and traveling around the country? It would probably be exhilarating until you realize that you have no way to charge your phone or make your food.

The inverter/converter unit (ICU) is the ringmaster of all of the electrical conversion in the Prius. The hybrid's two motor generator units have distinct roles: MG1 recharges the high-voltage ...