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[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Adkins wrote:
>> 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.
> 

But the Pious is sold at a loss, to buy the goodwill of
the noisesome Hollywood whiner crowd.