I know this is an old post but I registered to reply.

The most wonderful (liberal tree hugging) auto out there is the Toyota Preiss (I won't spell it right because it doesn't deserve a credit) gets outstanding gas mileage.

Guess what?

The environmental footprint for the vehicle is $2.87 cents a mile.

The environmental footprint for the H3 is $2.02 a mile.

How can this be? I will tell you. To make the battery in that car ore is mined for nickle, (what a mess that makes) smelted, (there goes the air) then (we won't discuss the chemicals involved for all the acids and such) then shipped to 5 different countries before the U.S. The car won't (the battery) last even 75,000 miles.

The H3 uses gas but is engineered to last 300,000 miles (that's right folks) and gets 15-19 miles to the gallon with the automatic trainee.

Some people are just plum dumb and haven't a clue.

So H3'ers lets