Prius Envy? Is the Prius actually bad for the environment?

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[ThePiglet888]

The Prius will always be good for the environment

[RevengeofGothzilla]

Those are for the petrol one, the diesel gets 64 mpg.

[rickylarch]

The nickel in a prius battery is 100% recyclable. The nickle and chromium on a hummer bumper is 100% non recyclable.

[rickylarch]

Fact check... Mini: 27 city 35 highway. Prius 51 city 48 highway. In which alternate universe does the mini get better mileage?

[rickylarch]

This report has been totally debunked. The research group who produced this "report" used the following totally unrealistic comparison. "The average Hummer H1 is assumed to travel 379,000 miles and last for 35 years, while the average Prius is assumed to last only 109,000 miles over less than 12 years."

[RevengeofGothzilla]

A MINI gets better MPG than a Prius, so do most diesel cars.

[battisa]

Prius sucks! rather buy a fuel efficent vw disel with 42mp/g

[cuvautoofficial]

That prius vs hummer "research paper" was so flawed. haha.

[radicalsquare]

It's not so simple. Many VWs are made in Mexico, some Hondas are/were made in America, etc. Other considerations occur such as parts that are made in different countries than where the final assembly occurs.

[radicalsquare]

CNW uses pure deception. It's a marketing company, not founded in science. Their claim is based on the erroneous assumption that a Hummer will be driven 300k miles but a Prius only 109k! Which basically means that the Prius will cost you a third of what a Hummer would over the same initial 100k miles of ownership. The lack of detail on this "report" should be a clue to the deception, as well as the claim that the Prius would be "obsolete" without any elaboration. Pure snakeoil.