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Sweet Jesus, this is some seriously whacked out, ridiculous, tree-hugging hippie shit. And this coming from a guy who's a sucker for "big oil" conspiracies.
I drive a Toyota Prius, by the way.
As luck would have it I have a good friend who's a mechanical engineer at Detroit. He has worked at both GM and Chrysler. I showed him this site and he could barely contain his exacerbation with this sort of nonsense.
The *real* reason this car was cancelled was:
It sold horribly. About 1000 units.
It was expensive to manufacture, and they took a huge loss on each unit sold.
The batteries were crap. They had to be cooled with a special AC unit.
Because the car sold so badly they quit manufacturing parts.
Without spare parts they could not live up to maintenance contracts.
Without spare parts and maintenance contracts they would have invariably suffered a class action lawsuit.
They couldn't realistically warranty the batteries, which were very expensive and would have suffered noticable degredation within a couple years. This again almost certainly would have led to a lawsuit.
The cars are crushed instead of sold to avoid said lawsuits.
Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to common sense marketing and fear of current U.S. Tort law.
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