Does the Toyota Prius really pollute more that it saves?

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It’s Question and Answer time again, Mark asks:

I heard that the Prius’ battery or something causes more environmental harm than helping it, and that the Hummer is more cost/waste efficient that the Prius. Is this true?

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One Response to “Does the Toyota Prius really pollute more that it saves?”

1.  Joeschmoe says: |
   

   Utterly false.

   That allegation was brought forth by CNW Marketing (who markets for GM no less, so there is an ulterior motive to plug the Hummer and bash the Prius), which has been repeatedly discredited. They cited pollution around the Sudbury nickel mines in Ontario Canada, but that plant had been polluting the environment for 30 years before the first Prius ever came onto the market.

   Consider this: The U.S and Canadian governments use more nickel to mint its coins every year than Toyota uses to make Prius batteries. Yet nobody is screaming bloody murder about how your coins are causing environmental harm.

   How about the aircraft jet engines, which needs high-temperature nickel alloys by the ton for its compressor fan blades, or nickel stainless steel by the ton for building construction? The amount of nickel used in all the Priuses made to date is miniscule compared to all the other uses for Nickel.

   The CNW Marketing report has been refuted by organizations like the Argonne National Laboratory and the Pacific Institute. It’s not worth the paper it’s printed on.

   Funny that years after CNW came out with their tissue of marketing lies, their client GM decided to jump on the hybrid bandwagon with their 2-mode hybrid system that cost a billion dollars to develop.

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