Car designed to stop global warming has an overheating problem

by Tim Blair

It’s meant to stop global warming, but Toyota’s Prius has a cooling problem:

Japan’s Toyota Motor has offered to fix around 650,000 Prius models worldwide to repair a defective engine coolant pump, in a move it said was not a recall …

The world’s largest automaker said it would “voluntarily” replace a pump controlling the temperature of the hybrid engine system, which may cause overheating if it does not work properly.

Prius owners may no longer be quite so smug...

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