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Originally Posted by Maki
Respectfully, guys,, I'm skeptical to the whole horror story premise. Got any links to back it up?
I guess we'll find out pretty soon, though, because Toyota has sold over 2 million Prii worldwide (the second million in less than 2 1/2 years), so we should be up to our kiesters in dead hybrid batteries in short order. Tree-hugger armageddon! How deliciously ironic.
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I agree, the entire arguement completely fails the common sense test. Even a Prius consumes several tens of thousands of dollars worth of gasoline over its useful economic lifetime. If that much energy were consumed manufacturing the car, even if it was more efficiently priced than gasoline (ie electricity) it would add many thousands of dollars of cost to manufacturing the car. Given that Toyota profitably sells the Prius for about $25K, I don't see it.