Re: What's the verdict on the Prius?

Here's the podcast that I did with CNW (the people behind that report). There's also a transcript for that discussion. I would say the report is bogus. CNW somehow estimated the energy required to do R&D on the prius but didn't include the energy to do R&D on other vehicles and of course the fact that they assumed you would have to make 3 Prius' for every 1 Hummer is also flawed.

Here's some more opinions: http://www.energista.org/node/528

And slate recently wrote an article on this: http://www.slate.com/id/2186786/