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claims,’' he says, “you’ll find that it takes about $286,500 in eneiS gy to produce and assemble a Prius, [which is] absurd.”
Toyota itself also disputed CNW’s findings. In a short rebuttal published in the Washington Bast, Toyota vice' president Irv Miller said that the increased energy require-; ment to build a hybrid with two engines under the hood “is overwhelmingly made up for in the driving stage.”
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