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Pollution Caused By Building a Hybrid Car …

Toyota admits that the production of its lightweight Prius requires more energy and emits ... and heavy battery ... ion batteries rely on the mining of ...

Hybrid Battery Toxicity | Hybrid Cars

08.04.2006 · Hybrid Battery Toxicity - There are now more than one million hybrid gas-electric vehicles on American roads. Many will celebrate reaching the milestone of ...

Does a Prius Consume More Energy than a Hummer?

yToyota claims a Prius battery will last at least 180,000 ... resulting from nickel mining in the 1970s, ... •Hummer H2: 89% •Toyota Prius: 74%

How "Green" is a Prius? in re batteries …

19.04.2007 · I saw an article in a paper (IBD I believe) that questioned the footprint of the Prius (and other battery cars) due to the pollution caused by the mining ...

As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, …

The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements found in ...

Corporation raiding Algonquin territory …

Corporation raiding Algonquin territory for minerals, selling to Toyota for Prius battery production

Is the Prius battery toxic? - TerraPass

Is the Prius battery toxic? You’re proving to be big fans of our new TerraPass Answers feature. This week’s question is from Nushin in Colorado.

The Prius Bad for the Environment? | …

The Prius' battery contains nickel ... Prius) would have you believe. Mining and smelting of nickel and ... is where the Nickel for the Toyota Prius battery is ...

Toyota Announces Recycling Facilities …

Toyota has set up recycling facilities for NiMH batteries used in hybrid cars such as the Prius.

Toyota Prius — Design Life-Cycle

Design Life-Cycle assess.design.(don't ... Engineering sorts and Sumitomo Metal Mining are refines the nickel for battery ... Toyota Corp. "Prius v 2013." Toyota ...