Toyota Prius Factory’s Impressive Green Efforts.

03 Dec 2009, Posted by Jason in awareness,technology, 0 Comments

While the Prius seems to be one of the move well-known eco-friendly cars, it has been criticized for the pollution is causes during production. While Toyota admits it does require more to produce the cars, Toyota also states that within a year of a car’s life, the car’s low-emissions offset the difference.

The truly amazing thing, however, is how eco-friendly the Prius factory, located in Toyota City, Japan, really is, and to what extent Toyota has gone to make it so.
Toyota has just announced they have engineered two flower species (to be grown at the factory) to help lower the production costs even more: One plant absorbs harmful gases released during production, and another reduces water vapors, which lowers the outside temperature, which then requires less cooling efforts internally in the production plant.

While this is quite impressive, they also have other very impressive green features at the plant: specially-engineered grass that needs to only be cut once a year, solar panels on the roofs, mirrors to shine sunlight into rooms, and special paint on the building to absorb harmful gases.

All in all, a very impressive effort by Toyota!

Original info was found on the New York Times.