Does Adding A Plug Make This The Best Compact Car? 2020 Hyundai Ioniq PHEV

[Music] today we're out here taking a look at one of the most fuel-efficient vehicles you can buy in North America today the recently refreshed 2020 hyundai ioniq plug-in hybrid the basics of the ionic remained the same but we get a restyled front end and we get a restyled interior with a new infotainment system in the dashboard but a lot of the debate about the ionic and of course the Prius Prime the other high efficiency plug-in hybrid available in America remain a lot of folks out there in the green community dismissed plug-in hybrids like this as having less impact than going full battery electric vehicle but I would argue that the decision process for buying a plug-in hybrid like this or like the Prius Prime really depends on your view of overall efficiency I'd also suggest that it requires a little bit of altruistic thinking as well because if you were to build 11 of these with the same number of lithium-ion battery cells that you could build one long-range evie with a 100 kilowatt hour battery pack you would be having a much bigger environmental impact by building and selling 11 of these if of course 11 people were interested in them the reason for that would be if you out there watching this video replaced say your late model Toyota Corolla with a brand new 100 kilowatt hour battery pack evie you would take your personal gasoline consumption from around 500 gallons a year down to zero gallons a year but there would still be 10 other vehicles out there that are driving out around using gasoline using other energy sources so whether you're thinking of energy independence the cost of operation or the environmental impact of consuming gasoline if you were to instead take that 100 kilowatt hours of batteries and build 11 ionic plugins or 11 Prius Prime's you would then reduce overall fuel consumption not by 500 gallons a year but by about 4,600 gallons a year assuming you're replacing a relatively efficient compact sedan but more on that a little later up front we find a grille shape that is similar to what we see in other modern Hyundai's but it is a little bit more demure than what we see in something like the new Hyundai Sonata we have full LED headlamps up here but we do have incandescent turn signals right there in the middle I do wish that these had been LEDs right there no fog lamps down below but we do find some functional air vents well integrated front parking sensors and that Hyundai logo does hide a radar adaptive cruise sensor up front I have to say that this is in my opinion one of the most handsome compact stands available in America and that's why I've long had the ioniq on our must buy list for compact stands if you're out there looking for something like a Honda Civic especially the Honda Civic without the turbocharged engine or a toda Corolla or anything along those lines you would do well to put the hyundai ioniq on your shopping list all ionic trims get standard forward collision warning with autonomous braking and a basic lane keeping assistance system as well our model has all of the optional features on it which include radar adaptive cruise control that expands the autonomous braking to include pedestrians we also get a more advanced lane centering system and blind spot monitoring on this model moving to the side we have some distinctive aerodynamic wheels and 205 with tires pretty standard for compact sedan in America I know that many of you are thinking but it's not a sedan it is a lift back and that is true this is a five-door liftback you can see right there that what looks like a trunk lid and the rear window open as one piece this is a style that is very similar what we saw in the Chevy Volt and has logically been more or less applied to the Toyota Prius prime as well that's because a lot of folks out there prefer a more traditional sedan shape and so they've styled this more practical liftback format to look like a sedan and appease some of those compact sedan shoppers out there in terms of overall length the ioniq is still shorter than some of the large compact stands that we find in America now especially something like the all-new Volkswagen Jetta but this is still solidly in the compact category especially on the inside where we find considerably more interior room than we find in subcompact stands out there and also it's worth noting more room on the inside than we find in the Toyota Prius moving to the rear we find restyled tail lamp modules these remind me a little bit of modern Nissan designs with this sort of triangular theme going on there now these are combination LED elements so the brake lights are LEDs as are the parking lights but the turn signals in the backup lights remain incandescent at the bottom of the bumper we have reflectors these are not additional light modules and then we have well integrated parking sensors in that black section as we see in some other hybrids out there we have another window right here in the lift gate so we have one window up top one window here and then this sort of spoiler esque treatment that makes this look kind of like a sedan divides the two windows from one another so when you're looking through the rear view mirror you're looking through both of these windows under the hood we find essentially the same hybrids that we find in the regular version of the ioniq and of course the closely related kia nero as well this is a 1.6 liter four-cylinder engine it runs on the atkinson cycle and alone it produces 104 horsepower and 109 pound-feet of torque mated to the engine is an axial electric motor or a pancake electric motor whatever you want to call it and it produces 60 horsepower in this model that's up from 43 in the regular hybrid but it makes the same amount of torque 125 pound-feet it is then connected to a six-speed dual-clutch transmission that then drives the front wheels this is a very different setup than what we see in the tota prius prime which uses a 2 motor and planetary gearset hybrid system because of the way this hybrid system is assembled it can take advantage of the bigger battery pack to deliver more power under the hood you'll notice that the combined horsepower total is 156 up from 139 in the regular model and nearly 200 pound feet of torque up from 173 in the regular hybrid model and that's because of the 8.9 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack in the rear up from basically 1.6 kilowatt hours in the regular hybrid not only can this battery pack store more power it can dissipate that power more rapidly allowing the electric motor to give us more oomph now the downside is increased weight this system weighs 320 pounds more than the regular hybrid and that's why fuel economy drops from between 55 and 58 miles per gallon combined in that model down to 52 miles per gallon for the ioniq plug-in hybrid as with most hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles out there the nominal capacity of this battery pack is not 100% available to you as a driver a certain portion of it is reserved in order to increase the lifetime of the battery pack although it's likely that this battery pack is allowing a little bit more access to that nominal capacity than the battery in the Prius Prime that's the most likely reason that we have a longer range 29 miles in this and 25 miles in the Prius Prime even though the battery packs are essentially the same size this car very much like the Prius prime operates on the concept of gasoline mitigation or gasoline consumption reduction whatever you want to call it not elimination if you want to eliminate gasoline and you want notic there's a full battery version for you instead what we see in this vehicle is similar to what we see in the Prius prime rather than burning 500 gallons of gasoline in the average toad a Corolla or Honda Civic or Hyundai Elantra you could get one of these guys and burn on average about 50 gallons a year for the average American in their average commute that is of course assuming that you can charge both at the office and at home your consumption may vary depending on where you're able to charge where things start to diverge is their behavior in evey mode this vehicle can give you 60 horsepower in evey mode you can definitely climb up hills if you do it at a moderate speed and you can go over freeway overpasses again if you're not too hard on the throttle but the Prius prime will stay in easy mode longer because it's giving us nearly 60 percent more power in evey mode than we find out of this plug-in hybrid system the other design consideration is cabin heating we don't have a heat pump under here and we don't have an auxilary cabin heater either so if it's cold outside and you need to heat the cabin it will actually start the gasoline engine it will use it to generate power and send it to the battery pack but it is using gasoline essentially to heat the cabin that design consideration certainly rankles some folks out there but it's not wasting that gasoline it is generating electricity with the gasoline and then sending it to the vehicle's electrical system so just depends on how much gasoline you really want to save if you want to drop your gas consumption to zero again there's a full battery electric version of the ioniq for you when it comes to front seat comfort I give these seats 9 out of 10 points when compared against the Prius or of course the average compact sedan in America we are driving the top-end trim which means we have a two-position seat memory over there on the door to way lumbar support right there on the driver's seat and we have a tilt telescopic steering column with a pretty decent range of motion like most mainstream compact stands in America however the front passenger seat remains a manual seat design hopping into the rear we find a decent amount of legroom back here I have about 3 or 4 inches of legroom sitting right there behind myself this is the kind of vehicle where you could just barely fit a rear-facing child seat in and an adult up front if you needed to we do have more combined legroom in here than we find in the Prius this is pretty similar to a lot of mainstream compact stands out there unfortunately like many compact mainstream sedans the roofline does drop a little bit towards the rear and that means that if I wanted to put my head all the way back there toward the headrest I do have to crane my head to one side just a little bit but for the average seating position as long as not putting your head on that headrest I actually have about half an inch of headroom let's just do to the overall really curved in shape of the roofline back there as it goes towards the hatch hopping into the middle seat position it's important to remember that the ioniq is a compact stand so the rear bench is certainly not going to be as wide as something like it's not a hybrid or of course Camry Hybrid as well and then moving all the way over to the right side of the vehicle this front seat is all the way back in its tracks and you can see I still have about half an inch of overall leg room left over all parts quality is pretty similar to other high efficiency hybrids out there like the Prius lineup but I think that Hyundai does a slightly better job of disguising some of the less expensive components so for instance we have hard plastics back here but they have an attractive texture to them and we still have a soft touch armrest on the door the front door styling is pretty similar but this entire upper door section is a soft touch material and then we have a soft touch armrest below Hyundai locates the battery pack right under the rear cargo area and as a result cargo area does decrease if you get the plug-in hybrid model but it's not as big of a decrease as we see from the Prius to the Prius Prime and that's what gives this a larger cargo area than we find in the Prius Prime even though the cargo area is smaller than the regular ioniq this is certainly larger than pretty much any compact sedan out there and definitely more convenient as well going in for a closer look you can see the cooling fan and the cooling ducts for the battery this battery is air cooled like many hybrid vehicles out there I do have to say though I wish that they had put this blower motor in a slightly more convenient spot so that way you could use some of that additional storage area right there there is a plastic divider that pops right in that zone and it does have cutouts so that way the roller cargo cover that we can see right there has a place to go we turn it around you can slot it right in there and then put the lid all the way down the soft touches in this cabin help make it feel a little bit more premium than the regular versions of the Prius we have Hydra dust will shoulder belts for the driver and front passenger two-way adjustable headrests and our model has a pretty standard sized moonroof right there the model that we're driving has this attractive two-tone leather upholstery interior and you did hear that right this is real leather not imitation leather like we find in some other hybrids out there if we move back over the doors we see the bottle holder down there at the bottom mid-range speaker grille and then a tweeter speaker grill right there integrated with the door handle very similar overall interior styling to the ioniq previously but the big difference happens right here in the middle of the dashboard where we find one of their latest infotainment screens this is the new ten and a quarter inch screen that's been working its way across the Hyundai lineup in this version the software appelate does occupy the entire screen which is my prayer I'm not quite sure why in some hyundai vehicles it does and why in some it does not Hyundai's infotainment system is one of my favorites it is pretty intuitive and easy to use it's not quite as feature-rich as some of the systems out there but it does have some interesting new features like you can get for some reason sounds of nature I'm not quite sure why you would want that and then of course we have our plug-in hybrid screen right there for energy information easy range driving etc but again you will notice that if I go over to the energy information screen and then I start the automatic climate control down here because it is cooler outside the engine actually starts up and you can see it is generating electricity and sending it over there to the battery because that is how it heats the cabin we have touch buttons for those direct access links right there across the screen and then touch buttons for the dual zone automatic climate control down here as well there's a driver only mode in order to save energy below that we have a single USB input two 12-volt power ports and then a place where you can put your smartphone there is a Qi wireless charger right under there we have a traditional console shifter right here so if you're looking for a hybrid without one of those joystick shifters this is gonna be an option for you drive is down there sport mode over to the left and then we can push up for gear up pull down for gear down and that does actually change gears because again this uses a six-speed dual-clutch transmission we have electric parking brake right there Auto brake hold heated seats and then a button to change the hybrid and Evi mode we have two different cupholders here one is a round one and one is sort of D shaped right there this holds juice boxes or a larger box drinks a little bit better you notice kind of interesting slot there that allows you to put smaller tablet computers right there in that little slot rather than them being in this storage area there one problem with that of course is that they're still out there visible to everybody this does not slide forward and backward just latches right there into place on the driver's side we find a partial LCD cluster on the left side and on the right side we have some LED gauges this is the power eco and charge gauge over there on the left and on the right side we find the battery level the bottom white portion there really is the portion that is reserved for hybrid operation and then we find a fuel gauge below as we see in other Hyundai models the display is bright and crisp we have a variety of different readouts their trip fuel economy we can also see turn-by-turn navigation directions the status of the vehicles active safety systems and then of course adjust certain vehicle settings within this interface as well but it's not as configurable as some LCD clusters out there it does change when we're in the Eco mode and then move over to the sport mode you can see that we get a definite different look there the display changes to give us a tachometer right there in the middle that we don't see when we're in the Eco mode but aside from that there are no real changes as we cycle from auto hybrid vehicle to evie mode the steering wheel design is basically the same as before we have a flat bottom down there and pretty aggressive sport grips for hybrid also unusual for a hybrid are these paddles right back there on the back of the steering wheel these adjust the regen braking when we're in the regular drive mode you can increase region braking with this paddle right here decrease it with the one over here on the right and then when in sport mode they function as traditional shift paddles gear up with the one on the right and then gear down with the one on the left on the left side of the steering wheel we find controls for the infotainment system and on the right side we find the controls for that multifunction LCD and the radar adaptive cruise control system that's optional when operating in hybrid mode overall 0 to 60 times are pretty close to the regular version of the ioniq that's because even though we have about 300 pounds extra curb weight we also have a little bit more power from the engine and that's what enabled this model to go 0 to 60 in 9.7 seconds that's also pretty average when we're talking about the efficient hybrids that are available in America this is really pretty similar to what we see in the Toyota Prius Prime in our braking tests this model took 121 feet to stop from 60 miles an hour back to zero that's definitely better than the last Prius Prime that we tested and actually pretty good for the compact stance segment in general that braking distance honestly surprised me a little bit I had expected this model to be right around 130 feet with the extra weight and the 205 with tires but when talking about curb weight in a vehicle like the ioniq it's important to remember that the weight in this vehicle is more evenly distributed than we find in the average compact stand in America and you'll really notice that out on winding mountain roads like this this definitely doesn't have wide tires the tires are not summer tires are extra goofy tires or anything like that but this does have a better weight balance than the average compact front-wheel drive sedan simply because of that big battery pack in the rear the extra 300 pounds almost entirely goes to the rear of the vehicle and because that weight is on top of or slightly in front of the rear axle it doesn't have the same effect as adding weight to the extreme rear of a vehicle behind the rear axle so it really does help improve the overall balance of the ioniq the other thing that really helps out handling in the ioniq is that we have a fully independent suspension on all four corners that's something that for instance we don't find in the current generation mazda3 anymore in situations on rougher pavement in corners where the mazda3 is rear suspension could get upset and where it overall felt a little bit bouncy they onic feels an awful lot more planted an awful lot more sure-footed but of course the grip is lower because the two of five with tires but this is the kind of vehicle where you could put wider tires on it if you wanted to and really improve the overall handling and thanks to the hybrid system you would still have a very efficient vehicle overall obviously not as efficient as if you kept the OEM tires on it but it would still be very very efficient when it comes to overall ride quality I'm gonna give this a B+ when it comes to the average compact stand in America there are definitely a great number of sedans in this category that are significantly firmer but a number of the softer entries have actually left since we last took a look at this model so something like the current generation Nissan Sentra has definitely gone in a more sporting direction and it's not as comfortable as it once was out on the road the ioniq does a relatively decent job of soaking up some of the large and small imperfections out here on this gravel road and just worth noting that even though this is a hybrid we actually a little bit more ground clearance than a few of the compact sedans available in America back out on the paved road the ionic suspension is definitely well suited to a longer highway journey this is the kind of vehicle where it wouldn't really be a problem to drive this for hours and hours at end it's also worth noting that this hybrid system definitely has better highway fuel economy than some other hybrids out there so if you are looking for a vehicle that gets excellent fuel economy on those long highway journeys this is going to be the option for you if on the other hand you're looking for a vehicle that has better in city fuel economy that would be something like the Toyota Prius it's just due to the overall hybrid system design the other thing worth noting is the overall braking field regen braking and friction braking are better blended in this than we find in the Prius but the overall regen braking feel is still a little bit unusual because it's going through that six-speed dual-clutch transmission so as we start slowing down even if we're slowing down gently here when we're digging into that regen braking you will feel the transmission shift as we start slowing down that shifting behavior has consistently been refined by Hyundai but it is still there and you will still notice it I have to say overall however I prefer the braking feel in this vehicle over what we see in the Prius the big difference is when you're going down a hill like this and you're braking lightly and then you dig into the brakes and have them aggressive breaking event this feels much more like a traditional vehicle whereas in a lot of toda hybrid systems there feels like there's this moment where nothing's going on and then the brake is engaged in our cabin noise test at 50 miles an hour we scored 73 decibels in here this is a little bit louder than some of the compact stands you could compare this with wind noise is well controlled in here but it seems like we have less sound deadening material especially in the wheel wells so road noise is a little bit more pronounced in the cabin when it comes to fuel economy the ioniq plug-in has been very impressive we've been averaging just over 53 miles per gallon when driving this as a hybrid and that is not charging it at all on either end of my daily commute remember I do go up and over 2200 foot mountain pass and although this may seem a little bit unintuitive generally speaking a lot of plug-in hybrid vehicles end up a little bit better in that fuel economy test than the average hybrid vehicle because they can recoup more energy going down the hill and I think that's what applies to this that also applies to the Prius Prime we also generally speaking get more aggressive regen braking and plug-in hybrids because the battery packs can accept that charge faster bottom lining the ionic out on the road is pretty easy for me I prefer the way that this drives over the Prius Prime some of that has to do with the stepped automatic transmission it definitely has a more traditional feel to it a little bit more engaging especially if you want to have a little bit of extra fun and you want to start using the shift paddles out on your favorite winding Mountain Road the overall handling ability in the ionic plug-in is pretty decent for something that's so efficiency focused and then of course if we move this over to the eco mode then those paddles revert to their regen braking function where we can adjust the regen breaking in four different levels and that's something that we don't see in a lot of hybrids out there but it is something that I really appreciate especially if you live in a hilly climate regen panels are something that we don't find in every hybrid or plug-in hybrid out there but it's a feature that I really appreciate living in a hilly area myself for 2020 the ionic continues to be priced right in the thick of things for the compact sedan segment again even though the ionic is a lift back it is definitely styled more sedan like very much like we see in the Prius prime so I think that anybody shopping for a Corolla or a Civic or on a lawn tour anything in that mainstream compact stand category ought to be willing to take a look at some of these more fuel-efficient options like the ionic if you want the hybrid model that gets 59 miles per gallon that starts at 23 thousand two hundred dollars but if you qualify for all the tax incentives the plug-in hybrid will undercut that a little bit because even though the MSRP starts at twenty six thousand five it does qualify for up to four thousand five hundred forty three dollars back from the feds bringing it down to twenty one thousand nine hundred seventy five dollars just a little bit less expensive than the non plug-in model that does drop down your fuel economy however so if you're doing a lot of long-distance driving and you don't ever intend to plug it in the plug-in hybrid is not going to be the best option for you because fuel economy goes from fifty nine down to 52 miles per gallon but on the other hand you do get nearly 30 miles of evie range if you're the category of plug-in hybrid shopper that says I never use any gasoline I haven't burnt gasoline in a year that's something that I used to hear from a lot of early plug-in hybrid adopters then my advice to you would be to just buy the battery electric version that gives you 170 miles of range and after tax credits that'll come in around twenty five thousand five hundred forty five dollars that's the model that's targeted at someone that wants to go cold turkey on gasoline move completely to electricity the plug-in hybrid is for someone that's in the middle they want to be able to do their daily commute on electricity but they want that safety cushion of being able to drive down to Los Angeles that they needed to without having to hunt for a charging station that of course is the same use case as the Prius prime really the only direct competitor to the ioniq now that the Chevy Volt has gone the Volt was really the poster child for plug-in hybrids for a while but as I've said before the Volt ultimately ended up being a little bit too compromised on both sides when we take a look at overall fuel efficiency for instance the Prius prime is 33% more efficient than the Volt when operating as an e V and 35% more efficient when operating as a hybrid so that reality combined with the expiration of tax credits for General Motors plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles is the reason that GM decided to stop making the Volt diving into comparisons let's talk about the Prius prime first obviously the Prius prime and the ionic are both targeting ultra-high efficiency but here the Prius prime definitely wins the Delta is obviously not as big as Prius prime - Chevy Volt but you'll still get slightly better economy in the Prius prime 133 mpg and 54 miles per gallon when operating as a hybrid the Prius prime also allows you to stay in that AV mode a little bit longer because it can deliver more power in the e V mode thanks to the way that they've chosen make the two electric motors work together the overall power dissipation abilities from the battery pack and of course the big deal to some plug-in hybrid shoppers out there is the fact that the plug-in hybrid version of the ionic will never completely avoid using gasoline in colder weather it will turn on the engine in order to heat the cabin and the Prius Prime won't do that now that will really seriously drop your range in the Prius prime of course because it's using the battery to heat the cabin but if you have a relatively short commute you're not driving up too many steep hills you're not going terribly fast the Prius prime in all weather conditions is gonna be more likely to stay in battery only mode than the ionic but you do have to give up a little bit of personality in the process I think the ionic is slightly better looking I think it's a little bit more engaging and we have a bigger cargo area in the back the efficiency numbers are obviously very good in the ionic but they are truly impressive in the Prius Prime when you look at it this way remember that the Prius prime is one of the most efficient gasoline vehicles in America and simultaneously one of the most efficient electric vehicles in America and when it's operating as an electric vehicle it's lugging around a gasoline engine and this massive home out of weight that it doesn't need to carry around and when its operating is a hybrid vehicle it's carrying around a much bigger battery pack than a regular hybrid needs so it's really impressive the towed has been able to give that Prius Prime such lofty fuel economy numbers next up we have the Kia Niro obviously the close cousin to the ionic essentially you'd want to get a Niro over an ionic if you really want a hatchback and you want that sort of mini crossover styling and you'd want to get nayana Kover an arrow if you prefer the ultimate in efficiency you definitely lose a few MPGs here it'll cost you 14 m PG E and three miles of range and then when it's operating is a hybrid six mpg overall but aside from that the two vehicles are very very similar they really handle an awful lot of like even though we have a slightly taller box in the narrow and the drive trains feel very very similar as well we also have a slightly refreshed interior for the Niro for 2020 although we don't know exactly what the Niro evey is going to bring us it's worth noting if you're thinking about one of these vehicles as an Eevee the Niro Eevee and the ionic Eevee are not the same Eevee system which is weird actually because the ionic and the Nero are the close sister ships in the hyundai-kia envelope and the kona is much more distantly related but for some reason the Niro and the kona share electric drivetrains and the ioniq is the one that's a little bit more distantly related even though the platforms of the vehicle are again more similar as a result of this interesting love triangle you get much more range in the Nero Evy than we get in the ioniq Evy and more power out of the system as well although it sounds odd there is some logic to the madness there the ioniq is focused on ultra efficiency so everything about the battery electric drivetrain the plug-in hybrid drivetrain and the hybrid drivetrain is targeting efficiency whereas the Nero is willing to give up some efficiency to give you the longer range to give you the different practicality realities etc last up we have the Honda clarity obviously this is not a compact sedan but it is one of the few vehicles that is about in the same price range here it starts at thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars so notably more expensive but because of its bigger battery pack it qualifies for a bigger federal tax credit up to seventy five hundred dollars and that will bring its real base price down twenty five thousand nine hundred the big thing to keep in mind about the clarity is that it is Honda Accord sized so if you're specifically looking for something that's small and easy to park that's not really going to be the clarity I also have to say I like the clarity's interior styling it's as attractive to me as the exterior is unattractive to some folks that is the thing to keep in mind about the clarity the styling is decidedly unusual we have the wheel skirts in the back that help improve overall aerodynamic efficiency the front end doesn't really look exactly like a Honda Accord it looks sort of like a Honda Accord got melted in the Sun and then the trunk is sort of a combination of trunk meets lift back meets extra glass sections inserted so there's a lot of funkiness going on on the outside of the clarity for sure and some folks will definitely be bothered by that but on the flipside the interiors lovely it's very comfortable and we do get particularly impressive fuel economy ratings for a vehicle at size 110 MPGe 42 miles per gallon some folks might not be too impressed by the 42 mile per gallon part but remember it has a 48 mile electric range so in all likelihood you are going to be using that gasoline engine and awful lot less for instance on my daily commute where I go up and over a 2,200 foot mountain pass the clarity is able to stay completely in electric-only mode the entire time and therefore use zero gasoline and it will the cabin in the winter versus the ioniq the ioniq will have to start the engine to help me go up and over that hill so even though fuel efficiency for that gasoline engine is very very high and overall efficiency is still high it's still burnt gasoline in a situation where the clarity wouldn't but that said it's obviously going to be more expensive and lastly because of the somewhat controversial styling honda hasn't sold as many clarity's as they really hoped to in america and that's why they've sort of pulled back on the sales network you can still order the clarity in a wide variety of different areas but most dealers outside of California and the Maine Zev States in the US are not going to be stocking clarity's so you may have difficulties driving one even if you would be able to order one and then buy it later personally I think that's a pity because if you can look beyond the exterior styling the clarity is an excellent option in this segment be sure and let me know what you think about all that down there in the comments section and what would you pick if you were shopping in this segment I have to say I like the ioniq a little bit more than the Prius in terms of the overall styling the functionality etc and I might be willing to give up the efficiency in order to get that extra style and the more usable infotainment system etc than what we see in the Prius however the whole point of this particular mini segment is fuel efficiency and nothing beats the Prius for that at the moment let me know what you think about that down there in the comment section below and what would you get if you were shopping I also have to admit I might just get the clarity because if I was already giving up efficiency then I might want the extra size the extra performance and of course the extra electric range that we see in the clarity as long as again you can get over the exterior styling let me know that down there in the comment section below find me over at facebook.com slash alex nota so you can see what I'm driving this week you can also head over to Instagram to see the lighter side of this channel and of course find our other gardening channel at the mountain garden you'll find a link to that at the end I'll see you all later you

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Length: 28min 59sec (1739 seconds)

Published: Wed May 27 2020