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First rule of sales, don't lie. Calling the Volt an electric was an outright lie and I would say consumers reacted in kind to that, secondly, hybrids have their market, but the Prius isn't the star that people say it is, though it isn't a bust for Toyota either. I'm not a fan of hybrids because their maintenence costs are a gigantic timebomb, in ten years when the battery goes the car is totaled because that's 10K, then there's the brake system that has a friction recharge, because of the extra sensors and gear that can't be cheap. etc.
Stock tip of the day. Invest in container ships. In a few years, hybrids currently on the market will be toast, and the same greenies that insisted we needed them, will now be insisting that the wrecks cannot be recycled in the US to environmental issues. The batteries brakes, etc will be shipped to China and other third world countries for disposal.