"Doctor Drivel" wrote in message
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"Phil" wrote in message
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...much better idea than driving the
thing about with all those heavy
batteries!

The Prius battery is very light in fact.
"It has a curb weight of 1254 kg. The Prius ... weight of the complete
battery pack is 53.3 kg."

That was the weight of the Mk 1 Prius. The Mk 2 battery has a weight of 45
kilograms of total battery mass. The more recent version were about 33 kg.
New Lithium batteries much, much lighter still. The large battery pack
installed to give 130mpg and charged from the grid are 81 kg above.