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Goodbye, Prius? Japanese carmakers drop battery electric-car development
The Washington Times ^ | February 4, 2013 | Cheryl K. Chumley

Posted on 02/04/2013 10:41:56 AM PST by jazusamo

Japan is backtracking on battery electric-car development, as even Nissan’s vice chairman, the so-called “father of the Prius,” announced plans to copy Toyota and pursue fuel-cell cars that convert hydrogen to electricity.

“Because of its shortcomings — driving range, cost and recharging time — the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars,” said Nissan’s vice chairman, Takeshi Uchiyamada,..

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: automakers; electricvehicles; failedgreen; fuelcell; nissan; prius; toyota
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Looks like Japanese auto companies have seen the light, wonder if Government Motors and Obama will follow?
1 posted on 02/04/2013 10:42:12 AM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Hell no, they’ll double down now that they have the market all to themselves!.........


2 posted on 02/04/2013 10:46:07 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: jazusamo
if socialists admitted to reality they would not be socialists.
3 posted on 02/04/2013 10:46:57 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: jazusamo

Captain obvious alert!


4 posted on 02/04/2013 10:47:04 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Red Badger

$40k for an exploding golf cart, what’s not to like?


5 posted on 02/04/2013 10:53:20 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: jazusamo

Time for the Skeeter to double down.


6 posted on 02/04/2013 10:57:23 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: jazusamo

Someone posted this question here a few years ago:

Who buys a used hybrid?


7 posted on 02/04/2013 10:59:37 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: jazusamo

There’s still the inevitable corporate embarrassment of untold millions of Priuses needing new $10K+ battery packs a few years down the road. There will be more of those things littering the highways than beer cans at some point.


8 posted on 02/04/2013 10:59:45 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jazusamo
“Because of its shortcomings — driving range, cost and recharging time — the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars

A fact which every halfway knowledgeable person knew without having to invest several hundred billion dollars to experiment.


9 posted on 02/04/2013 11:01:16 AM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America, don't you?)
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To: jazusamo; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
“Because of its shortcomings — driving range, cost and recharging time —

Not to speak of:


10 posted on 02/04/2013 11:02:44 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: jazusamo

Not so PC in Japan. No American would give up on it or they’d be pilloried by all our fools.


11 posted on 02/04/2013 11:04:21 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Red Badger

Auto Ping.


12 posted on 02/04/2013 11:06:20 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Please bump the Freepathon or click above and donate or become a monthly donor!

13 posted on 02/04/2013 11:08:21 AM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jiggyboy

The new electric cars are more modular.

And remember, locomotives use electric motors to drive themselves. The diesel just charges them.


14 posted on 02/04/2013 11:10:31 AM PST by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: jiggyboy

Whoops, it’s more like three thousand bucks or less.

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1078138_toyota-hybrid-battery-replacement-cost-guide


15 posted on 02/04/2013 11:15:32 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jazusamo

Explain how the vice-chairman of Nissan can be the father of Toyota’s Prius? Great reporting.


16 posted on 02/04/2013 11:17:22 AM PST by Jagman
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Whoops, it’s more like three thousand bucks or less.

They say that the original batteries on a Prius should work for hundreds of thousands of miles. That's probably Toyota-specific perfectionism at work, though. I wouldn't be quite as confident about the batteries in a Chevy Volt.

17 posted on 02/04/2013 11:20:40 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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...untold millions of Priuses....

Well, actually, the total production as of Oct 2012 was 2.8 million surprisingly.

18 posted on 02/04/2013 11:20:46 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Jagman

Exactly, it looks like reporting on cars is not Cheryl’s thing.


19 posted on 02/04/2013 11:23:11 AM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: Jagman

Nissan, Toyota, what’s the difference?

As you’ve likely guessed, he’s Toyota’s vice-chair, not Nissan’s.


20 posted on 02/04/2013 11:25:04 AM PST by green iguana
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