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By Wired News Report | Also by this reporter 09:15 AM Oct, 02, 2003

TOYOTA CITY, Japan -- Toyota Motor showed off the production site of its gasoline-electric hybrid cars to journalists for the first time Thursday with a powerful message: The fuel-saving autos don't have to be expensive to make.

Not long ago, many leading automakers, including the world's biggest, General Motors, questioned the benefit of developing hybrid cars, arguing that the gas-sipping autos are merely an interim solution before zero-emission fuel-cell vehicles take over.

They accused -- possibly accurately -- Toyota and Honda Motor, the only other mass producer of gas-electric hybrid cars, of selling them at a loss given the labor-intensive assembly required.

There may have been some truth to that argument before, but no longer, says Toyota, which launched its second-generation Prius hybrid sedan in Japan last month.

"We used to build the previous Prius on an exclusive assembly line at the Takaoka plant, and later at Motomachi," said Kenji Takahara, head of administration at neighboring Tsutsumi plant, which now builds the Prius.
"Now, it shares a line with four other mass-production sedans," he said.

That's a big and necessary step for Japan's top automaker as it aims to offer the hybrid option on most of its models in the not-too-distant future. Toyota is hoping to sell 300,000 of the fuel-efficient vehicles a year starting mid-decade. [Wired News]
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When the hybrid goes purebred, we will finally have a true marvel of transportation.

Doing away with the gas motor and all of its many moving parts, the oil pump, gas pump, fuel injection, fuel ignition, radiator and rubber hoses, exhaust system, muffler, catlytic converter, air oil and gas filters, will also mean fewer repairs.

Zero emission Electric autos are here now and zero emission fuel cell cars coming soon will make hybrids passe.

http://www.pluginamerica.com/whyev.shtml

Some hybrid owners are converting their cars to run predominately on battery power. = TG

Finally, A deletion debate record….

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the debate was Delete. (aeropagitica) 20:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
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United Democratic Nations
Delete. This organization does not exist, and external links are to the author's personal pages. Stephen Gilbert 16:51, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Delete per nom. Fiction. Slowmover 17:02, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Delete per nom, WP:NFT. [1]. PJM 17:34, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Delete as fiction, WP:NFT. --Kinu t/c 17:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Delete a pipe-dream of some nut who thinks his organization is going to replace the UN. --djrobgordon 18:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Delete as net.kookery. --BWD (talk) 19:48, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Delete WP is not for things made up in school one day. (aeropagitica) 21:28, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Delete as WP:NFT per Mr. Pagitica. Kuru talk 02:46, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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**Delete a pipe-dream of some nut who thinks his organization is going to replace the UN. --djrobgordon 18:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC) **


United Democratic Nations is merely a proposed title name for a possible alternate entity for the presently troubled United Nations. Ambassador Bolten himself suggested the need for same. http://tinyurl.com/psdhw


DirobGordon imagines that suggestion of this name, UDN, somehow makes me :

[1] **some nut **

[2] ** an organization owner **

[3] ** someone who hopes to replace the UN **

One has to wonder about the emotional maturity of persons wielding destructive power at WP.
Does this mean that any constructive or original proposal is automatically destroyed?

Guess I should be flattered that someone could think I owned an organization called United Democratic Nations and that my personal organization could replace the UN. = TG

Another fun project. Nothing like notoriety.