Ok. Now that my drive battery needs replaced, I was wondering if anyone wanted to 'do the math' on overall cost of ownership versus regular non-hybrid? Initial cost value today fuel savings/cost battery cost across life My 2001 has 140,000 miles on it and let's just say Toyota battery replacement is $2500. Or about 1.7¢ per mile. new it cost, what $20k? A normal gas car could have been had for $10k? (versa almost still can be had for that price) I am not original owner, and not sure how easy it would be to know and calculate a week-by-week gasoline price fluctuation and its effect on overall costs. But I would say it'd be safe to compare let's say a 20 mpg to 50 mpg or so difference? Well, I got about 50 mpg overall average; some might not have; do not know. I DOUBT any regular gas car averaged over its lifetime significantly greater than 20 mpg. It might PEAK at 30-40, but all-round; all season....do not know. And, being a former finance university teacher (prof aid), we would need to compare apples to apples by discounting to today's dollars or some other date - today likely being the easiest.
Want to quess what repairs would have been done on a 10k new car that is now 11 years old and has 140k. Clutch maybe, air conditioner oops no 10K car would have had that. Transmission, a stick, probably no. Alternator, maybe. You should know that you can't do the math on guesses. If you like the car fix it, if not dump it and get something else.
This is so futile. Why do people keep posting stupid stuff like this. The Prius is by no means comparable to a $10k car. No one can touch it for fuel economy, not Lincoln, not Acura, not BMW. No one!!! I'm really kind of sick of this argument.
