Sep 24
Written by: Aaron Turpen 49 views
Published on September 24th, 2009 in Electric Cars
At least the general idea was nice. Chrysler has announced that they will no longer be supplying printed manuals with their vehicles, but will instead include a DVD with electronic versions as well as some instructional videos. This move will save (they say) 20,000 trees per year.
The change is nice and I’m frankly kind of surprised that other companies haven’t already done this. The manual for the Toyota Prius, for instance, is 607 pages long. Printed. On paper. Dead trees. Kind of makes those little greenie moon children in the Prius commercial look less happy. Doesn’t it?
I guess switching from paper to plastic (HA!) wasn’t too difficult and even the engineers at Chrysler could figure it out, despite being unable to produce an eco-friendly car. I wonder how much bailout money they invested on this project?
Source: TreeHugger
Tags: chrysler, electric car, prius, toyota
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