Prius less enviromentally friendly then a Hummer?

[Mags]

http://omidr.typepad.com/torque/2007/03/toyotas_prius_i.html

Interesting.

[Lazybones]

Yep, batteries = bad

[Mr. Analog]

I saw this on /. yesterday, it sort of reminds me how California has complied with it's own "green" laws by outsourcing power generation to other States like Nevada which use coal power.

[Thorin]

My first reaction was that the numbers in the article don't add up.  Then I read the comments, where people were discussing that very point, and found a link to the report this article is based on: http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/Dust Zip Folder.zip (warning, it's a zip file with a Word doc inside with hundreds of pages!)

If nothing else, the actual study tries to include as many items as possible from when design on the car first starts until the car is completely disposed of.  It even takes into account the energy used by workers to get to the plant where the vehicle is built (in the US more workers drive while in Japan more workers take mass transit, ergo vehicles built in the US cost more energy to produce per worker than in Japan - but then it's offset by the cost of transporting the vehicle from Japan to the US to sell it, etc, etc).