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[Robert Adkins]

> 
> Robert Adkins wrote:
> > we will reach a point where it will become significantly 
> more feasible 
> > to replace more automobiles with electrically powered vehicles.
> >   
> 
> That will have to come a long way.  I need a car that can get 
> me to Lexington on a tank of gas.  The current all electrics 
> could barely get my wife to work and back, and she better not 
> take any side trips.
> 
> Batteries are the issue, pure and simple.
> 
> Hybrids are more expensive to run than gas cars.  What they 
> don't tell you in the ads is the Prius will need a $10,000 
> battery replacement in two years.  Totally negating any gas 
> savings you might have enjoyed.
> 

	That's untrue. 

	In the US, the entire hybrid system (which includes the hybrid
battery pack) is warrantied for 8 years/100,000 miles. I highly doubt that
such a warranty would be provided if they had to be replaced every 2 years.

	Perhaps that is what happens on the cars that are modified to be
Plug-In Hybrids and thus run off the battery almost exclusively. That
obviously voids the warranty in the first place and places a different set
of demands on the batteries than is designed into them in the first place.

	-Rob