Ah-ha, someone who looks beyond the obvious. That is the problem all electric vehicles have. I was looking into electric bicycles a bit back, and even they have that problem, although a couple of hundred bucks for the bicycle battery is better than the few thousand which I will bet the replacements for those crossbred cars cost.
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> interior, excellent ride and handling, and good power for normal > > Thanks for this, maybe things have changed, as mid-range Toyotas were > not famed for these aspects up until 5 yrs ago that I last bought a > car. > >> car which otherwise satisfies my needs well. The fact that it uses >> less fuel than most others with its performance/quality makes me feel >> good about being environmentally friendly as well. > > Has anyone (including Toyota's marketing dept) studied the > environmental effect of the construction and disposal of the batteries > in these vehicles? What is their life expectancy (the batteries' not > Toyota's marketing dept. :-)) and what are options for recycling or > reuse? > > Kostas > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
