Why was the Toyota Prius not a Diesel?

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Surely a diesel engine would be the obvious choice for a car that was designed to be green, even with a turbo fitted it will still be greener than a petrol engine.

I mean yes it would be louder and slightly slower maybe but if the car isnt designed to be fast then it shouldn't matter.
 
that's what i thought too. it wouldn't be slower. diesel would have more torque, so if anything, it would be faster!


but hey, toyota doesn't care about the enviornment. in the mid 90's, they made a couple hundred FULLY ELECTRIC toyota rav4's. even look 'em up on youtube and wikipedia. even watch the movie "Who killed the electric car", they mention the electric rav4 in the movie. now those are green cars. they had reasonable range and many rav4's have over 200 000miles with the oringinal battery pack running.

now days, the best toyota can offer is a hybrid. even gm is ahead of them now with electric cars. they have an electric jeep, van, sedan, sports car, and the chevy volt all planned to go for sale in the next decade. the most i've heard from toyota is one electric concept vehicles and other funny looking hybrids.
 
Because its a hybrid. If you were to make a hybrid diesel would cost more than a gas hybrid or a regular diesel.
 
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