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[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Adkins wrote:
>>> 	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.
> 
> 	Can you prove this?
> 

With direct statements from the company, No.

But why can't any other auto manufacturer on the planet
(including Japanese and Korean competitors with much
lower legacy pension and labor costs) produce a competing
vehicle in the same price range?

Barring the employment of tireless and goodwilled magic
elves who don't demand to be paid, the only logical conclusion
is that Toyota is taking a loss on all of this.

It's not like any of this is new technology.
Hydrocarbon engine-electric motor hybrid drive has
been used by navies around the world for over 100 years.
(submarines), and the individual components (diesel
or batteries, DC motors, gasoline engines, differentials
being used in dual-input, single-output mode are neither
novel, nor nor poorly understood technology -- in fact,
they are all very mature -- the oldest and most mature
of them all being batteries, being close to 200 years
old now.