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Originally Posted by DGthe3
 If it works, it works and if it doesn't, it doesn't. Just because it doesn't get there the way you'd like it to doesn't make it a bad thing. I also wonder how they figured out the disposal emissions for the 400 lbs of the Volts battery. To my knowledge, there aren't any facilites that can do it, and there won't really be a need for them for quite some time. Its one thing to analyze the recycling cost of steel, aluminum, or plastic. Those are all mature processes. But Li-ion recycling is in its infancy at best right now. Anyone who predicts what it will be in 10 years is essentially guessing.
I wonder, do they include the half a million gallons of bunker diesel that ships burn when they take a load of Priuses from Japan to America? Or do they ignore that out of convenience? |
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how about the mining and exporting of Nickel from Sudbury to Japan to make the batteries?
and did anyone else catch that they said the ForTwo mileage was
better at 41hwy/33city compared to 40hwy/35city ???? That's just plain old wrong, by their own numbers no less. You have to take mileage numbers with a grain of salt at the best of times. There are so many factors involved that you end up averaging averages. So at WORST these two vehicles probably have the same mileage.
You gotta wonder sometimes who's running this circus
