Sadly the reality is that even with the increase costs of recycling the heavy metals and special electronics in a Prius, it is still far more cost effective to do that recycling as opposed to trying to build hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Battery recyclers are out there already, so the fudging of the costs of scraping a Prius or other hybrid down are actually slightly exaggerated. It can be done, and without that much fuss.
Sidenote... how many of you actually see a Prius driven like a hypermiler? Or do you instead see them barrelling along at 70-90 mph in the fast lane like I do...
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