What government does
They find 300 Prius cars they didn’t know they had until they read about them in a newspaper.
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April 27th, 2012 at 9:32 am
I’m sure 5 years of letting those batteries rot will do wonders for those cars.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:05 am
At least they aren’t rusty. Toyotas cannot rust. It’s that Lexusion alloy.
Looks like a great opportunity for a federal study of battery longevity. @ about $14000 unit cost. They’ve got to be writing up the grant as we speak.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:17 am
The tires are probably flat-spotted, but would be worse if they weren’t in underground parking. Drive ’em like you stole ’em!
April 27th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Oh, I guarantee you they knew about them. I bet if you did some research, the story would go like this: After buying them from the Toyota dealership owned by the County Commissioner’s brother-in-law, the fleet was tucked away in the garage to fully depreciate so they could be snapped up in a no-bid government salvage contract by another BIL after 5-7 years. Then they get a fresh set of tires and sold to gullible hippies as low-mileage eco-friendly transport.
April 27th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Do Prii suffer from battery “bricking” like Teslas do?
April 27th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Reading the blogs, one might forget that there are local newspapers that would actually interview knowledgeable officials about this.
The cars were ordered during the administration of a previous mayor, who was pushed out in a recall election. One of the reforms of the new guy was that everyone and his brother didn’t get a company car at the expense of the taxpayer.
Unfortunately, that left about 900 new cars already ordered that they didn’t have an immediate use for, because they were already cutting the number of cars they needed by near on 1000. Rather than sell brand-new cars as used, or scrap older cars before 10-years/100,000-miles, they decided it made the most sense to keep the new cars in a reserve and cycle them in as other cars needed replacement. The cars were kept in a maintenance facility, the local Toyota dealer did house calls so that recalls and warranty service didn’t take city time, and they had a regular maintenance, inspection, and exercise program determined by an official Toyota memo on how to keep stored cars ready for use.
So the cars in reserve may have been forgotten by some commissioners, but certainly not by the motor pool.