Toyota: Hybrid costs to level out

By 2010, carmaker expects to cut costs for Prius, others enough to make as much money on them as it does on conventional cars.

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[Cyrus_K]

Love my Prius :)

Just love my Prius, gets 50 to 55 miles per Gallon and it is advanced inside too.

Screw US car makers for screwing the people by giving them no new technology in cars :(
I mean can u imagine that typical US made car gets the same MPG today as it did in 1955, or even worst!
What the HEK happened to engineering?
To innovating!

How many more stupid, useless, Web 2.0 or Open Source companies are VCs going to invest in rather than investing in real innovation, such as cars that get 100 MPG and cost $10 to $15K!
Airplanes that provide 1st class seating for the price of coach.
Search engines that provide much lower cost of Advertising. etc.

So thanks goodness for Japanese at least innovating with Prius and giving the people a real useful technology.

[bobbydi]

Teach Toyota drivers

After seeing a Toyota Hybrid driver run a red light 20 minutes ago, Toyota should teach the new Hybrid owners how to drive safe- not like they are heartless dictators that drive the way they want, endangering the other people. The Hybrid drivers can go back to h*ll so the streets can be safe.

[Sir Limey]

Twit

Of course it is only hybrid owners who run red lights. No those who drive 4 wheel drive monsters! Why don't you go to hell( I'm not afraid to use the word) and stop being so "holier than thou"

[Catgic]

Hybrid Hypermile Fuel-Sipping Is The Only Way To Drive

bobbydi and your fellow guzzlers --- You sound like you may be one of those many road raged, Prius rear bumper riders I see in my rearview mirror during my daily commutes. I see you and your 15-minus mpg Pick-Up Truck and SUV driving brethren and sistren going into 60-plus mpg *Prius- Envy* behind me. When your eye balls lock-on to the Prius Hybrid Synergy Drive logo and badge on the rear hatchback door of GREEN MACHINE, you go GREEN --- GREEN WITH ENVY & RAGE.

What usually happens next is you stand on your horn, stomp down on your accelerator and dangerously pass me only to quickly pull in front of me and slow down so as to cause me to have to hit my brakes to keep from hitting you. The road-rage manuever is a dangerously foolish and fuel-wasting one for you, and a fuel-saving battery charging one for me. The regenerative braking hybrid mode you force me into just charges my hybrid battery even more as it causes the needle on your gas gauge to dip towards EMPTY even more rapidly.

Do not blame me and my GEN II fuel-sipper for tooling along in *Warp Stealth* on pure battery power --- using Zero Petrol --- whilst your fuel-gulper guzzles down one gallon of gas for every quart of *Black Arabian Gold* my Prius sips down.

We Toyota Prius Hybrid hypermiler drivers do not *run...red lights,* as you falsely charge. We anticipate red lights well ahead of traffic light changes so we can take advantage of regenerative coasting to keep our Hybrid Batteries charged to the max without having to use gasoline to run the ICE to charge them. JP B-)