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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Sorry, but this is nonsense. (Did you see the post above yours regarding battery warranty?) Where are you getting your information?
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Sorry about that
It seems you posted while I was still writing. I should have checked after posting, though.
What I had in mind about changing batteries was not about the owner paying for them, but about having to replace or get rid of them in the first place. Warranty or not, all sorts of stuff has to be mined and shipped back and forth around the planet before it finds its way into a car, and then that heavy mini-periodic table will be driven around for thounds of miles in the trunk before it gets recycled. At best, it really will be recycled, and not shipped to India for peasants to take apart with their bare hands. At least the dead weight part is partially compensated by reducing the size of the engine and fuel tank.
On the other hand, a diesel requires filters etc. which bring the FE down. Still, diesel technology, even the fancy TDI, is simpler than a hybrid.
I'm still stubbornly voting for a biodiesel plug-in hybrid :P