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I'll put this here (mods: OK to move) as it potentially pertains to Gen2-Gen3 Prii.

Hydrogen sulfide inhalation killed mother, toddler found on Florida's Turnpike in June

Apparently an inside-the-car 12v battery in a Porsche Cayenne SUV was replaced with non-OEM wrong type and possibly poisoned the passengers with H2S. Only known case of this ever happening. I have never smelled copious H2S coming from a car battery, so I wonder what happened?

Authorities are still trying to confirm. Hard to imagine how so much H2S could form but there is the H2 gas formed and sulfuric acid is there of course. I guess we have to wait and see. H2S is not too bad as a trace smelly gas (rotten eggs smell) so they would need to get a pretty big snootful of it somehow. Maybe something else going on here. Very sad of course.

Gen4 Toyota has placed the battery under...

Another excellent report from Jeff Cobb and http://hybridcars.com

	Model	09/15/16	08/15/16	07/15/16	06/15/16
1	Prius Liftback	9790	10177	9930	8531
2	Ram Pickup Diesel*	5385	5235	4310	4437
3	RAV4	4127	4919	4692	3751
4	Model S*	4100	3200	2400	2800
5	Transit Diesel*	3780	4198	3967	5053
6	Fusion Hybrid	3776	3002	3519	2542
7	Model X*	2600	1900	1500	2000
8	Volt	2031	2081	2406	1937
9	Camry Hybrid	1902	2155	2214	1649
10	Sonata	1815	1146	1301	1242
11	Fusion Energi	1652	1422	1341	1700
12	Prius C	1459	1459	1402	1355
13	Leaf	1316	1066	1063	1096
14	Prius V	1222	1346	1358	1130
15	Accord Hybrid	1160	890	565	31
16	Colorado Diesel	1031	832	679	789
17	C-Max Hybrid	739	879	1112	1486
18	C-Max Energi	689	707	755	630
19	Avalon Hybrid	688	775	707	619
20	CT200h	638	819	849	785
21	Malibu Hybrid	618	522	416	371
22	Optima Hybrid	591	654	768	483
23	e-Golf	529	454	344	248
24	ES Hybrid	497	692	705	646
25	X5	482	876	649	583
26	MKZ	460	541	681	766
27	i3*	391	1013	1479	608
28	RX 400 / 450 h	387	574	684	684
29	Highlander Hybrid	383	506	524	528...

Autonews & Marketwatch tossed out a warning to GM;

and here;

Why GM should remember the fate of the EV1 - MarketWatch

The author framed his article in the way of a warning - which came by way of GM's 1990's EV, their EV1. In short, the reminder in so many words says don't throw a...