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Prius batteries contain nickel. Nickel is often found in nature among deposits of sulfur, so when mining nickel, you're also going to be releasing sulfur into the atmosphere. Sulfur in the atmosphere has a tendency to create acid rain, which has detrimental effects to the environment around it.
But wait, there's more! The raw nickel ore (probably mined in Canada) is barged over to England to be processed into more refined ore. The barge that is used to carry it across the Pacific Ocean uses approximately 4 gallons per second. Over the entire journey, that equates to several cubic fucktons.
It gets worse. After the nickel ore is refined and removed of any impurities, it is then flown over across Asia to another country (I'm pretty sure it's China, but I'm not entirely sure, but I do know that this is most certainly a step in the process) to be melted down and then further refined into a foamy kind of substance.
It's not over yet. The foamified nickel is flown once more to the Toyota factory in Japan, where it is finally made into the environmentally-friendly batteries for your Prius.
SOURCE: I read a book about it in 8th grade, but I'm sure that won't suffice for you. Give me a few moments and I'll find some links.
Edit: Got your source right here.
Yep, I was just going to post this. The first author on this article is a British guy who wrote an anti-climate change bestseller. He also wrote an article arguing science has too much influence over politics, and that corporations should be put in the middle to mediate that influence. How much do you have to pay a person to write these opinions?