2013 Tahoe hybrid was 20/23 city/highway. The gas equivalent 15/21.
Better? Yes.
The issue was the starting price. The hybrid was $53,620 - the ICE $40,405.
$13,000 buys a lot of gas.
Even assuming all-city, you’re buying ~5,000 gallons of gas to go 100k miles with the hybrid. ~6,666 in the ICE.
1,600 gallons of gas would cost ~$5200 at today’s national average price. At ATHs it’s still only an $8,000 fuel difference over 100k miles.
You’d had to have to run the hybrid - napkin math here, for a quarter million miles to break even. That’s assuming maintenance, repairs, and insurance costs are equal or lesser for the hybrid - which is unlikely.
2013 Tahoe hybrid was 20/23 city/highway. The gas equivalent 15/21.
Better? Yes.
The issue was the starting price. The hybrid was $53,620 - the ICE $40,405.
$13,000 buys a lot of gas.
Even assuming all-city, you’re buying ~5,000 gallons of gas to go 100k miles with the hybrid. ~6,666 in the ICE.
1,600 gallons of gas would cost ~$5200 at today’s national average price. At ATHs it’s still only an $8,000 fuel difference over 100k miles.
You’d had to have to run the hybrid - napkin math here, for a quarter million miles to break even. That’s assuming maintenance, repairs, and insurance costs are equal or lesser for the hybrid - which is unlikely.