Comments on: Recycling the new Toyota Prius

By: NacaYoda

NacaYoda — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:13:48 +0000

Thanks Pieman, I appreciate your input. In this instance though, I believe we were debating “recycling”, not production.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:53:52 +0000

Desire is a personal thing Neo, just because you happen to desire a flaunty Italian car, doesn’t mean that other people do. Alfa make unbelievably bad cars, so there is no point in comparing the MiTo to a seriously well built machine like the Prius.

By: Neo Utopia

Neo Utopia — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:31:50 +0000

Eventually all cars will be hybrid or fully electric, so Toyota is inventing not just the driving systems but also the apparently sustainable mining, processing, production and recycling of hybrid/fully electic components. If only they could use that technology inside cars which were more memorable and desirable, like the new Alfa Romeo MiTo.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:23 +0000

So lindsay its an import model I assume?

You will need to take it to a dealer instead of emailing them, they can then get relative part numbers and organise a replacement/Disposal of the old battery.

An email to a dealership will go through as a sales enquirey, Best in this case to go straight to the horses mouth in person! Tapping away at a keyboard is not alwas the easiest method…

By: Lyndsay

Lyndsay — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:51:12 +0000

My Toyota Prius has been out of action for months. I need a new battery pack (model NHW11) and have emailed Toyota several times, but they never respond to me except for trying to sell me a new car. If anyone knows where I can get a battery pack for this car, please let me know, so I can get it going and dispose of it.

By: lazybones

lazybones — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:11:19 +0000

“Its an evolving technology which works well”

True it does, and its improving all the time. It could also be they are happy with the recycling process and won’t move until everthing is in order.

But Toyota do appear to have some resistance to a decent range PHEV claiming larger batteries offer a deminished returns.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:39:50 +0000

Lazy bones,

Clinging to old Battery Technology?

Why do manufacturers cling to old engine technology? Push rod V8’s for instance!

Its an evolving technology which works well! Varients are being made includeing a plug in vehicle! why change something when it works so well? Toyota arent really in the habit of makeing bad things! Boring yes, but allways built the best!

By: TSI

TSI — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:19:08 +0000

i like the camry hybrid look….

By: lazybones

lazybones — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:52:37 +0000

I hope this helps put the “Evil battery comittee” to bed.

But why are Toyota clinging on to such an old battery technology anyway??

By: Rongway

Rongway — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:27:00 +0000

Bits of the Prius are transported here and there in the recycling process – are the Australian batteries sent to Europe, too? Is that transportation part of the equation?

Many parts on modern cars other than the Prius are recyclable. But re-using a car for, say, 20 years consumes a whole lot less energy than building several new cars and then recycling them. Of course, the current thinking on economics by many governments around the world is to go the Japanese path – encourage those older cars off the road and make us get new ones using taxes and/or cash payouts. The current thinking on environment by governments around the world is to get us to use less energy and resources. I think I need a politician to explain to me how these two oposing ideas actually are compatible.

Heh – anti-spam word is 300kw

By: pieman

pieman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:30:21 +0000

NacaYoda – the plant where the new Prius is built is covered in solar panels – i read it generates about half of the plant’s energy requirements.

By: NacaYoda

NacaYoda — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:19:04 +0000

These processes themselves may emit next to no emissions… but they sound like they need an immense amount of electricity. That has to come from somewhere. Nuclear or Coal… either way, imperfect, and should be counted in the reported equation.

By: FrugalOne

FrugalOne — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:18:36 +0000

*****PRIMO!*****

Well thought out by BigT [tm.F-0]

It really is a *green* vehicle on many levels

NOW if they could [would] just sell it [DIEsel dilema] where it would make fiscal positive sense it would have been PERFECT.

Maybe that the hybrid Camry?

Cheers

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