Where is the Toyota Prius made and how much to replace the batteries?

The Prius is currently manufactured in the Tsutsumi plant in Nagoya, Japan. The hybrid Camry is manufactured in the Kentucky plant. Once the economy gets a bit better, the Prius will be manufactured in a new plant in Mississippi.

The batteries run about $2300 + installation for about $3000 total. However, each year they have gone down in price. Also the number of batteries replaced is very small, so small that the MTBF (mean time between failures) isn't actually known. Once a large number of Prius get to the 300,000 mile mark there will be a better idea of battery life. The battery is really not something you need to worry about in the Prius.

I understand you concerns re diesel, but to be quite honest you have to look beyond actual fuel consumption... The prius is a very complex car, it has been reliable, but its fuel consumption isnt really that great when compared to a small diesel or even a very new petrol. They are expensive to make and because of all the complexity their manufacture carbon footprint is probably awful - a large proportion of the emissions caused by a car over its lifetime are actually caused by making it. So just go for the most economical petrol model that will do what you need. Do not mess around trying to replace individual elements of a battery pack - once cells start to fail then replacing them will leave you with an unbalanced pack which will just need continual attention - thats assuming you can actually replace these cells easily, suspect not. Your local garage will run away on this one and the Toyota agent won't mess around - bad battery pack = new battery pack. A hybrid is not the answer unless you live somewhere like London where they think they cause less pollution.

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Where is the Toyota Prius made and how much to replace the batteries?

don't worry about replacing the batteries, they last a LONG time, despite what other people say. the warranty on the batteries is for 8 years btw. some prius's have even been used as taxi's and still don't show signs of the battery giving up. actually, even the first prius's don't have issues yet.

did you know toyota used to make a fully electric Rav4 in the mid 90's? those ued the same type of batteries that you see in the prius, and some of those had more than 250 000 km's on the original battery without any signs of giving up. and those were in a FULLY ELECTRIC SUV! so it would go through more charging cycles than a gasoline/electric hybrid, so a hybrid battery will for sure last much longer.

The Prius is currently built in Japan. There were plans to open a plant in Mississippi to build the Prius in the U.S., but that has been shelved due to the downturn in the economy.

For Prii sold in the U.S., the battery has a 8-year / 100,000-mile warranty. If you bought and registered the car in CA, CT, MA, ME, NY, NJ, RI or VT, the warranty is automatically extended to 10 years / 150,000 miles.

Here's the warranty at Toyota: http://www.toyota.com/prius-hybrid/warranty.html

If the battery fails during the warranty period through no fault of your own (i.e. you didn't do anything stupid like crash the car or tamper with the hybrid system), replacement cost is FREE.

i think most toyota's are made in the US , the ones made in Japan aren't soo good nothing is wrong with toyota??

nothing it would definately save a lot of gas, they have a little less than 50 mpg which is amazing