[quote=CONCHO]HAHAHAHAHA that’s so funny. The best part of the ad is at end where they tell you that it has an estimated 20MPG city. All of this amazing new expensive hybrid technology to get a vehicle with 20MPG. Pathetic.
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Well, from a oil use reduction standpoint this is huge. The non hybrid gets 13mpg? So the increase is 53% better MPG. To get that same % improvement from a Prius at 50mpg, youd have to go to about 77MPG.
Or to think of it another way: gallons of gas needed to drive 15000 miles/year.
Small car gets 40 mpg. Uses 375 gallons a year
Prius gets 50 mpg. Uses 300 gallons a year.
Large SUV gets 13 mpg. Uses 1154 gallons a year.
SUV hybrid gets 20 mpg. Uses 750 gallons a year.
Small cars being traded for a hybrid saves 75 gallons a year.
SUV’s being traded for a hybrid saves 404 gallons.
Obviously it is way more valuable for Americans to upgrade to hybrid SUV’s than it is for them to upgrade from small cars to hybdids.
