While admittedly not the most affordable options on the market, many shoppers find the balance of refinement, power and
efficiency more than worth the price tag.
Not exact matches
That most important thing that is
worth to mention is, unlike driving other hybrid vehicles which you have to sacrifice performance for
efficiency, but for the RAV4 hybrid, it does actually deliver
more horsepower and better acceleration
than the gas version RAV4, and at the same time achieves higher MPG.
The transportation sector has eclipsed power plants as the biggest source of US carbon emissions, and EPA calculated in 2010 that the tougher fuel -
efficiency standards would prevent
more than one year's
worth of total US carbon emissions over the lifetime of new vehicles sold from 2012 through 2025.
So, until we see new breakthroughs in battery technology, display energy
efficiency, or as ARM's Ian Drew puts it, «chips that don't consume power,» anything
more ambitious
than a Pebble just doesn't seem
worth pursuing.