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08-03-2008, 01:47 PM
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Smart Car vs Prius.....which is more earth-friendly?
The Prius gets better mileage than the Smart Car, but the smart car is larger and uses a hybrid battery. So which one is more earth-friendly? Does the carbon footprint of fuel economy outweigh the carbon footprint from a hybrid battery?
    
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08-05-2008, 04:06 PM
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I must be looking at the wrong Smart Car, cause it is not larger than my Prius, nor is it a hybrid. Did you confuse the two? And the Prius get better gas mileage from the figures I've seen.
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09-06-2008, 07:40 PM
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oops...that was a typo
thanks for pointing that out, i meant to say that the PRIUS is larger and has a hybrid battery.....
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09-08-2008, 09:44 AM
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this site is great.... http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm go to 2008, click on smart, click on coupe.... then click the "compare side by side" icon, and click 2008, toyotoa, prius. my old dodge neon coupe got around 35mpg on the highway.... back in 1997... so I don't understand what is so hard about getting these higher numbers, especially with a smaller car and smaller engine. 
Last edited by frodus; 09-08-2008 at 09:47 AM.
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09-12-2008, 09:23 AM
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I know that over all the prius looks way better, but have you guys ever heard about whats IN those batteries? over all its worse for the environment since most of those cant be properly recycled.
I'd say over all the smart car would be a bit better (perferably if it was an electric version with fully recycleable batteries) its smaller, uses less materials to produce, most of the materials on the smart car are fully recycleable, and so on... I wish GM would have ended up building exactly what they were shooting for with the Chevy Volt. Make everything entirely recycleable, let the car be a link between the electric plug in and gas powered hybrids, and a new generation for realistic proper cars.
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09-12-2008, 10:20 AM
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Too bad that site doesn't have a Smart Diesel listed. My brother's got an 800cc turbo diesel in his that is pretty fuel efficient.
Another thing the Prius has going for it is that you can put your family in it or you and 4 friends bringing the transportation cost per person way down.
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