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Subject: [Leica] euro vs dollar and leica
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Mon Oct 27 17:34:30 2008
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Lots of gas engines need replacing at 150,000 miles.
I guess you didn't read through the stuff.  here is an edited version..

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stasys Petravicius <stasys1@cox.net> wrote:

> Sonny- for $4500 you can buy a lot of lead acid batteries or gallons of
> gasoline! Stasys
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>
>   According to a Toyota service rep. about $4,500.  However:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> How long will the Prius last?
>>
>> The Toyota Prius is designed to be as durable as any other Toyota, which
>> considering Toyota's reputation, is a pretty long time.
>>
>>
>> How long does the battery last in the Prius, and how much will it cost to
>> replace?
>>
>> The Prius battery is designed to last the lifetime of the vehicle and
>> considering that the Prius is designed to be as durable as any other
>> Toyota,
>> and considering Toyota's reputation, that is a pretty long time. Toyota
>> have
>> lab data showing the Prius battery can do 290,000km of normal driving with
>> absolutely no degradation of the battery's performance. To give some real
>> life examples, there is a Taxi driver from British Columbia, Jatinder
>> Parhar, who has done over 410,000km in his Prius Taxi and has had to do
>> nothing to his Prius other than standard servicing. (*click to read more
>> here*) <http://www.hybridexperience.ca/Toyota_Prius.htm#hybridtaxi>.
>> Toyota
>> has sold over 500,000 Generation II and III Prius worldwide and say they
>> have never had to supply a battery pack for replacement due to wear and
>> tear. (*click here to read Toyota Press
>> release*).<http://pressroom.toyota.com/Releases/View
>> ?id=TYT2004062345528>Given
>> all this, the price of a replacement battery is probably irrelevant,
>> however in the extremely unlikely event you needed to replace the battery
>> in
>> your Prius, current cost, at time of writing (Feb 2008), is NZ$4500.00 for
>> a
>> Generation II Prius and NZ$3150 for a Generation III Prius. However this
>> is
>> coming down all the time. When we first looked into this at 3 years ago
>> the
>> battery packs were priced at $7000 each. We believe the price will fall to
>> around $2000 within a year or so given the increased production of Hybrid
>> Vehicles using this type of battery. For piece of mind every Toyota Prius
>> brought from The Clean Green Car Company is covered by a 2 year, unlimited
>> km Hybrid Car Warranty that includes cover for the battery pack. [back to
>> top <http://www.cleangreencar.co.nz/page/faq-prius#top>]
>>
>>
-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA

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