Monday, April 23, 2012

Prius vs Leaf

in this book "365 cars you must drive" Matt Stone states that the Toyota Prius will go down into history as one of the most revolutionary cars in automotive history. One reason to support this is that the Prius was the first hybrid, ever. When it came out in 2005 it would get 48 miles per gallon city, and 45 highway. A car getting more MPG in the city than highway was unheard of. Another supporting fact is that Since then Toyota had to try to keep it on top because of all other companies making electric cars as well, Toyota came out with 4 new types or the Prius, and one of the types was called the Prius Plug-in. The Plug in got 95 MPG combined. However this car The Nissan leaf currently gets 106 City and 92 highway. That may be less than the Leaf but the Prius can keep its electric engine going for over 540 miles. where with the Leaf you gets at best 138 miles. But Toyota even kept the Hybrid engine in the Plug-in so after you ran out of the electric motor, you had the hybrid with 50 MPG, which adds another 536. So with a full charge and tank you can go over 1,070 miles. Finally, he tells us about the price. $32,000. The leaf? $50,000. Yet the Prius has literally 3 times the space, and luxuries. Goes to prove once again, how amazing the pris us. These ideas are connected to how much our cars can change to see a Dodge viper get 20 MPG and see this get 5X that, literally. The prius will forever be in history.






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