Then why not bring it up to the news stations, to the company and protest this car and take it off the road??? I never heard anything bad on toyota prius. They can't even keep up demand for this vehicle. I've seen about 3 of them where I work, and those cars looks nice inside out, and quiet as hell, and the owners have not giving me one complaint on their cars yet and they've had them for years. Do you know something we dont know ? If something is truely wrong and enviormently unsafe with this car let the world know, but if you think about it, what car is enviormently safe ??? every car has oil, transmission fluid, radiator fluid, power steering fluid, exhaust fumes, battery... etc.. etc.. no car is helping the enviorment if you think about it.