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Lightyear 0 – here's everything you need to know about this solar car than can run for up to 7 months on a single charge

Elon Musk-owned <keyword id="107096" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="tesla" source="Orion">Tesla</keyword> has once again increased the prices of its electric cars across its entire lineup with some models going up by as much as $6,000.<br /><br />According to the auto-tech website <keyword id="4676482" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="electrek" source="Orion">Electrek</keyword>, after a year of increasing prices almost every month in 2021, Tesla slowed down the rapid rise in prices across its electric vehicles in early 2022.<br /><br />However, now the electric vehicle company has updated its online configurator overnight to again increase prices across its entire lineup.<br /><br />The <keyword id="6355606" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="model" source="Orion">Model</keyword> 3 is the one that got the smallest price increase of all Tesla's lineup. Only the Model 3 Long Range is affected as it went from $54,490 to $57,990, a $2,500 price increase, the report said.<br /><br />The Model Y, which has become Tesla's most popular model, has received a bigger price increase with both versions of the electric SUV going up in cost.<br /><br />Model Y Long Range went from $62,990 to $65,990 and Model Y Performance went from $67,990 to $69,990.<br /><br />The <keyword id="1633343" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="tesla-model-s" source="Orion">Tesla Model S</keyword> also saw its price increase significantly, and that's after a big $5,000 price increase just a few months ago.<br /><br />The Model S Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive Long Range went from $99,990 to $104,990 with the price increase.<br /><br />The Plaid version of the flagship electric sedan stays the same price at $135,990.<br /><br />The Model X Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive Long Range went from $114,990 to $120,990 with the price increase.<br /><strong>ALSO SEE:<br /><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/lightyear-0-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-solar-car-than-can-run-for-up-to-7-months-on-a-single-charge/slidelist/92179138.cms">Lightyear 0 – here's everything you need to know about this solar car than can run for up to 7 months on a single charge</a><br /><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/maruti-suzuki-will-gain-the-most-from-economic-recovery-and-also-regain-lost-market-share-say-brokerages/articleshow/92171487.cms">Maruti Suzuki will gain the most from economic recovery and also regain lost market share, say brokerages</a><br /></strong><br />

Tesla once again hikes its electric car prices

<p><em><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-in-tech">Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox each weekday.</a></strong></em></p><p><strong>Another day, another <keyword id="11894123" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="newsletter" source="Orion">newsletter</keyword>.</strong> I'm Jordan Parker Erb, and today I'm gracing your inbox with news of a Google bot that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-thinks-artificial-intelligence-bot-has-become-sentient-2022-6">may have achieved consciousness</a>, and a completely unattainable (but terrific) <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/porsche-taycan-turbo-s-cross-turismo-electric-car-review-2022-6">electric Porsche</a>. </p><p>Ready? Let's do this thing.</p><p><em>If this was forwarded to you, </em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-in-tech"><em>sign up here</em></a><em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-in-tech">.</a> Download Insider's app </em><a href="https://link.insider.com/click/27645591.160803/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zaWRlci5jb20vYXBwP25yX2VtYWlsX3JlZmVyZXI9MSZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9T3BlbmluZ19iZWxs/62667762063d6b9bef0cffb3Bf9c9aa56"><em>here.</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-hundreds-venture-funds-zombies-startups-dead-bankrupt-startups-2022-6"><strong></strong></a></p><p><strong>1. As fundraising dries up, venture funds face a harsh reality. </strong>During the boom times of the past four years in the <keyword id="6358815" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tech" source="Orion">tech</keyword> industry, more than 1,100 first-time venture funds were born. Now, with LP funding slowing to a trickle, many could turn into zombies.</p><ul><li>Unlike the startups they fund, venture firms do not suddenly go out of business. Instead, they face an agonizing death that can stretch over years — or even decades. </li><li>Unable to raise new capital, they slowly bleed staff, coasting on management fees while trying to salvage whatever they can of the investments they have already made.</li><li>"There's going to be a lot of walking dead venture firms," one partner predicted. "If you don't raise another fund, you're resigning. It's just a matter of time before you're dead."</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-hundreds-venture-funds-zombies-startups-dead-bankrupt-startups-2022-6"><strong>Inside the zombification of venture funds</strong><strong>.</strong></a></p><p><u><strong>In other news:</strong></u></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-thinks-artificial-intelligence-bot-has-become-sentient-2022-6"></a></p><div type="image" title="Woman silhouette Google logo" height="1184" width="1578" msid="92180554" hostid="261"></div><p><strong>2. A Google engineer said he was placed on leave after claiming an AI chatbot was sentient. </strong>He said he has spoken with the bot about religion, consciousness, and the laws of robotics, and that it wants to "be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-thinks-artificial-intelligence-bot-has-become-sentient-2022-6">Read the conversations that convinced him of the bot's sentience.</a>  </p><p><strong>3. For some VMware employees, work is "semi-meaningless" right now.</strong> As employees prepare for an acquisition by chipmaker Broadcom, many fear their new owner is likely to cut jobs and product lines. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/broadcom-acquisition-vmware-employees-layoffs-culture-clash-2022-6">Here's what VMware staffers told us.</a></p><p><strong>4. Prime members are suing Amazon for nixing free Whole Foods delivery. </strong>Getting food delivered from Whole Foods now costs $9.95 per order, and Prime members are none too pleased. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-members-sue-for-ending-free-whole-foods-delivery-2022-6">What we know about the lawsuit so far.</a></p><p><strong>5. Roblox pays interns almost $10,000 a month — and it's on the hunt for young talent.</strong> With applications for Roblox's 2023 internship program opening in July, we spoke with its chief scientist who offered <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-an-internship-at-roblox-salary-interview-2022-6">four tips to land a place in its coveted internship</a>.</p><p><strong>6. One of the largest crypto lenders announced it was pausing all customer withdrawals.</strong> Celsius Network said the move would "stabilize liquidity and operations" amid extreme market conditions. Celsius' price plunged as much as 60%, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23165401/defi-cryptocurrency-celsius-network-pause-withdrawals?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4">as the crypto market suffered a brutal weekend</a>. </p><p><strong>7. Introducing the top 13 venture capitalists specializing in edtech investing. </strong>Coming from firms like Owl Ventures, Reach Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, these VCs are helping businesses transform the way students learn. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-education-technology-edtech-venture-capitalists-to-know-2022-5">Meet the investors to keep on your radar</a>.</p><p><strong>8. Google will pay $118 million to settle a gender-discrimination lawsuit. </strong>The class-action lawsuit, which was brought forward in 2017, includes around 15,500 women. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-pays-out-118-million-to-female-staff-who-earned-less-than-men-2022-6">Get the full rundown here.</a></p><p><u><strong>Odds and ends:</strong></u></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/porsche-taycan-turbo-s-cross-turismo-electric-car-review-2022-6"><u><strong></strong></u></a></p><div type="image" title="The 2022 Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo Turbo S." height="1571" width="2094" msid="92180556" hostid="261"></div><p><strong>9. Porsche's $209,000 electric station wagon is terrific — and completely over the top.</strong> Insider's transportation reporter test drove the Porsche Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo, and was stunned by its sleek look and impossible speed. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/porsche-taycan-turbo-s-cross-turismo-electric-car-review-2022-6">Get a look at the luxurious sedan.</a></p><p><strong>10. An EV startup just unveiled a car that can go 43 miles per day on solar power alone. </strong>The Netherlands-based electric-vehicle startup, Lightyear, revealed its first model, which will sell for about $263,000 — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lightyear-electric-car-ev-solar-powered-range-photos-2022-6">see the Lightyear 0</a>.</p><p><u><strong>What we're watching today:</strong></u></p><ul><li>Oracle and others are reporting earnings. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/earnings-calendar">Keep up with earnings here</a>.</li><li>London Tech Week kicks off today in — you guessed it! — <a href="https://londontechweek.com/">London</a>. </li><li>An NFT collection created by Ringo Starr is being <a href="https://juliensauctions.com/about-auction?id=417">offered at auction</a>.</li></ul><p>Keep updated with the latest tech news throughout your day by checking out<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/therefresh"> The Refresh from Insider,</a> a dynamic audio news brief from the Insider newsroom. <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/therefresh"><strong>Listen here.</strong></a></p><p><em>Curated by Jordan Parker Erb in New York. (Feedback or tips? Email </em><a href="mailto:jerb@insider.com"><em>jerb@insider.com</em></a><em> or tweet </em><a href="https://twitter.com/jordanparkererb?lang=en"><em>@jordanparkererb</em></a><em>.) Edited by Hallam Bullock (tweet </em><a href="https://twitter.com/hallam_bullock"><em>@hallam_bullock</em></a><em>) in London.</em></p>

Tech: The new walking dead? Venture funds

'The Martian' author Andy Weir solved moon economics to make his new book 'Artemis' believable

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Matthew DeBord/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">Glad to give in.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Last year, I committed automotive heresy for a car guy: I bought a Toyota Prius.</p><p>In the world of auto enthusiasts, few vehicles have been viewed with as much scorn.</p><p>The innovative gas-electric hybrid is considered a high-tech <keyword id="34991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="transportation">transportation</keyword> appliance, designed to deliver miles per gallon rather than visceral thrills.</p><p>You don't feel the Prius in your loins - you feel it in your brain, conscience, and guiltless superego rather than your rubber-burning id.</p><p>It's a do-gooder mobile. And while do-gooding is great, everything about the Prius compromises the passion we have long held for cars in order to pollute less and squeeze more miles out of every gallon of dinosaur juice.</p><p>The Prius isn't fast. It doesn't handle well. It engenders a technological isolation from the road. It lacks almost any signifiers of luxury. Above all, it's devoid of style - designed, in fact, to self-consciously advertise its denial of automotive exuberance.</p><p>But I bought one anyway, a certified, pre-owned 2011 model in blue with leather seats, navigation, and SiriusXM satellite radio. It was the obvious and natural thing to do, because if you think about buying a car for more than 12 seconds, the Prius pops up. I would wager that even if you're someone who bleeds Ferrari red and has bones made from old Chevrolet Camaros, you would consider buying a Prius, if you honestly considered the decision.</p><p>And you can now to undertake this calculation with an all-new Prius, the fourth generation of a groundbreaking car that first landed on US shores in 2000 and has, to date, sold almost 5 million examples. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/2016-toyota-prius-three-review-2016-5">We checked out this car</a>, as well, and while it's design is offputting to some, at it heart beats the heart of a Prius.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Matthew DeBord/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">The new Prius.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>For the Prius haters, we're in a grimly-welcome crunch time for the hybrid. Sales are down, amid gas prices that have dipped below $2 in some parts of the US. The third-generation Prius has been around for a while, so some of the Prius buyer fatigue is understandable.</p><p>But in the US, we're currently in the throes of a massive truck-and-SUV revival. The big gas guzzlers are practical, or at least defensible, again. The Tesla Model X is about to be the coolest car on the road.</p><p>The Prius is so 2007.</p><h2>An easy decision</h2><p>I haven't bought a car for a while. My daily driver/fallback ride before I moved from Los Angeles to New York in 2014 with my family was a 1998 Saab 90 0S. I sold it to a junkyard for about $300 by the time it was all over: the shouting and shedding of tears over its balky idle, busted bumper, flaky electronics, funky Saab-ness, and bulletproof motor. We also said goodbye to a 2007 Honda Odyssey minivan, a fine vehicle that was for us state of the art for people-hauling.</p><p>In New York, I test a lot of cars, so we didn't need to own a set of wheels for the year we lived in Manhattan. We had Ferraris one week and Chevys the next, but variety is fun. Then we moved to the suburbs: We needed a car. We thought about an SUV, but then, as I have described above, we thought about a Prius.</p><p>Yes, I know, I'm supposed to have vintage Porsche is the garage that won't start half the time. I wouldn't <em>mind</em> having a vintage Porsche in the garage that won't start half the time, but I've got plenty of time on this rock to work on that one. True, I'm going to get basted by the gearheads. But I honestly don't care.</p><p>In the end, the Prius decision came easy and quick. It was a simple transaction. I had the new car in the driveway in a day and a half.</p><p>I've driven plenty of hybrids, but when it came to the granddaddy of them all, I actually didn't have that much seat time. I've been in every Prius since the original, which I derisively characterized as a "tricked-up Toyota Echo" (car guy!) But I never paid any meaningful attention to it.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Toyota</span></p><p class="caption">No much to look at.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>And as it turns out, I didn't need to pay any attention to my <em>own</em> Prius. The thing commands no attention. It ... just exists.</p><p>You buckle up and push a button. It turns on. You place your hands on the wheel and feet on the pedals. It hums along silently until the engine kicks in. You can induce some pep by putting it into "Power Mode," but you can also creep along under 15 mph for a bit in battery-powered "EV Mode." It resembles driving all the other cars you've driven ... except that it doesn't.</p><p>The Prius is, at the 55,000-foot level of analysis, a monumentally important car, as influential as the Model T. Few cars have been true game changers. The Prius was a game changer. At the 3-foot level, from the driver's seat, the Prius is the best bad car I've ever experienced.</p><p>And it's objectively bad, by all the usual car-critical criteria: It lacks power (because it doesn't need it), style (because is doesn't want it), handling (because you don't need to be doing that kind of thing anyway), and engine sounds (because you aren't supposed to want those).</p><h2>The core of its Prius-ness</h2><p>What it doesn't lack is the core of its vehicular being: fuel economy. There I was one day, tooling around in the Prius in the Jersey 'burbs and enjoying/questioning their weird car that made me feel absolutely nothing when I realized that I needed to get gas.</p><p>I prepared a couple of $20s (cash discount), based on force of habits developed in California. About 9 gallons later, I was parting with $18. And given our driving patterns, I figured that we'd do this once a month.</p><p>Do the math. My wife and I were almost gibbering with high-mpg glee. Bleak memories of spending $77 to gas up the Honda Odyssey still echoed in our minds.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Matthew DeBord/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">Another look at the new Prius.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>It's nothing to entertain this reaction in the abstract. A car that can get 50 mpg makes tons of sense if you care about your budget. Getting back change from a $20 bill at the pump, on the other hand, is life-altering. Factor in the Prius' rather well-noted reliability and all kinds of saving-for-college scenarios enter the mind, particularly if you've bought used and aren't up against of the premiums of owning a new Prius, which starts at about $24,000 and can go up to $30,000, depending on the trim level.</p><p>Seeing it actually happen in reality is another story. What a glorious car. I don't care if it's the automotive equivalent of eating low-fat plain yogurt. I'm happy to suffer that pain. Besides, it's a comfortable car. The seats aren't benches of wood. You can make the AC blow as hard as you want. It can play classic rock, and play it sort of loud.</p><p>Since buying the Prius, I've taken it on many short jaunts and a number of long drives. Flip on cruise control and you have to be careful about switching off your brain: The machine floats along on a cushion of steady-state virtue. It's the opposite of driving, say, the Chevy Corvette Z06, a supercar that requires constant, obsessive monitoring as it reaches into your chest and rips your heart out with horsepower.</p><p>The Prius cultivates in the driver the closest thing to a condition of peace I've ever experienced behind the wheel. It also makes you a better citizen: You embrace the speed limit.</p><h2>It was destiny</h2><p>One of my kids asked me why we got the Prius - they know the vehicle well, after a decade in LA, where everyone we knew except us owned one - and I said that it was just gonna happen.</p><p>I don't even think this is demographic destiny. The Prius isn't really an expensive car. You can be a tree-hugging liberal and get one and that makes sense. But I don't know why someone who leans rights and wants to chop down a lot of trees wouldn't want to spend less than $250 a year on gas.</p><p>In fact, there's a strong case that if you're tempted to get a low-mpg SUV due to gas prices, you should consider the Prius. It doesn't make gas free, but it comes close.</p><p>There are some cars you can't avoid. For a time, it was the Volkswagen Beetle, and maybe the Volvo 240. I had a Honda Accord for about a year. In a life with cars, a few characters are destined to appear. I knew there would be a Prius in the garage at some point, as surely as I could predict death and taxes.</p><p>And in that there was a reassuring inevitability. It's nice to know what the future holds.</p><p>Beyond that, all the Prius haters are completely misguided in their hatred - but not because the Prius is a magnificent car deceptively cloaked in sheets of boring. Rather, because the Prius is the first successful car that isn't trying to be a car.</p><p>The distance between a Prius and one of these:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>McLaren</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Or these:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Cadillac</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Or these:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Cadillac</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Is measured in light-years.</p><p>It took me 16 years to buy the paradigm shift, but I finally did.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/toyota-3-wheeled-electric-car-2014-12">Here Is Toyota's New 3-Wheeled Car That's Being Tested In Europe</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="s3OHJjcjoWoFHgnq1kqmwphbTvpENzLe" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

I really don't care that I catch all kinds of criticism for buying a Toyota Prius

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Matthew DeBord/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">Glad to give in.</p></div><p></p></div></div>I recently committed automotive heresy for a car guy: I bought a Toyota Prius.</p><p>In the world of auto enthusiasts, few vehicles have been viewed with as much scorn.</p><p>The innovative gas-electric hybrid is considered a high-tech <keyword id="34991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="transportation">transportation</keyword> appliance, designed to deliver miles per gallon rather than visceral thrills. You don't feel the Prius in your loins - you feel it in your brain, conscience, and guiltless superego rather than your rubber-burning id.</p><p>It's a do-gooder mobile. And while do-gooding is great, everything about the Prius compromises the passion we have long held for cars in order to pollute less and squeeze more miles out of every gallon of dinosaur juice.</p><p>The Prius isn't fast. It doesn't handle well. It engenders a technological isolation from the road. It lacks almost any signifiers of luxury. Above all, it's devoid of style - designed, in fact, to self-consciously advertise its denial of automotive exuberance.</p><p>But I bought one anyway, a certified, pre-owned 2011 model in blue with leather seats, navigation, and SiriusXM satellite radio. It was the obvious and natural thing to do, because if you think about buying a car for more than 12 seconds, the Prius pops up. I would wager that even if you're someone who bleeds Ferrari red and has bones made from old Chevrolet Camaros, you would consider buying a Prius, if you honestly considered the decision.</p><p>And you'll have the opportunity now to undertake this calculation with an all-new Prius, the fourth generation of a groundbreaking car that first landed on US shores in 2000 and has, to date, sold almost 5 million examples. Toyota revealed the 2016 edition in the unlikely environs of Las Vegas this week.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Toyota</span></p><p class="caption">The shiny new 2016 Toyota Prius.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>For the Prius haters, we're in a grimly-welcome crunch time for the hybrid. Sales are down in 2015, amid gas prices that have dipped to $2 and lower in some parts of the US. The third-generation Prius has been around for a while, so some of the Prius buyer fatigue is understandable.</p><p>But in the US, we're currently in the throes of a massive truck-and-SUV revival. The big gas guzzlers are practical, or at least defensible, again. The Tesla Model X is about to be the coolest car on the road.</p><p>The Prius is so 2007.</p><h2>An easy decision</h2><p>I haven't bought a car for a while. My daily driver/fallback ride before I moved from Los Angeles to New York in 2014 with my family was a 1998 Saab 90 0S. I sold it to a junkyard for about $300 by the time it was all over: the shouting and shedding of tears over its balky idle, busted bumper, flaky electronics, funky Saab-ness, and bulletproof motor. We also said goodbye to a 2007 Honda Odyssey minivan, a fine vehicle that was for us state of the art for people-hauling.</p><p>In New York, I test a lot of cars, so we didn't need to own a set of wheels for the year we lived in Manhattan. We had Ferraris one week and Chevys the next, but variety is fun. Then we moved to the suburbs: We needed a car. We thought about an SUV, but then, as I have described above, we thought about a Prius.</p><p>And the decision came easy and quick. It was a simple transaction. I had the new car in the driveway in a day and a half.</p><p>I've driven plenty of hybrids, but when it came to the granddaddy of them all, I actually didn't have that much seat time. I've been in every Prius since the original, which I derisively characterized as a "tricked-up Toyota Echo" (car guy!) But I never paid any meaningful attention to it.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Toyota</span></p><p class="caption">No much to look at.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>And as it turns out, I didn't need to pay any attention to my <em>own</em> Prius. The thing commands no attention. It ... just exists.</p><p>You buckle up and push a button. It turns on. You place your hands on the wheel and feet on the pedals. It hums along silently until the engine kicks in. You can induce some pep by putting it into "Power Mode," but you can also creep along under 15 mph for a bit in battery-powered "EV Mode." It resembles driving all the other cars you've driven ... except that it doesn't.</p><p>The Prius is, at the 55,000-foot level of analysis, a monumentally important car, as influential as the Model T. Few cars have been true game changers. The Prius was a game changer. At the 3-foot level, from the driver's seat, the Prius is the best bad car I've ever experienced.</p><p>And it's objectively bad, by all the usual car-critical criteria: It lacks power (because it doesn't need it), style (because is doesn't want it), handling (because you don't need to be doing that kind of thing anyway), and engine sounds (because you aren't supposed to want those).</p><h2>The core of its Prius-ness</h2><p>What it doesn't lack is the core of its vehicular being: fuel economy. There I was one day, tooling around in the Prius in the Jersey 'burbs and enjoying/questioning their weird car that made me feel absolutely nothing when I realized that I needed to get gas.</p><p>I prepared a couple of $20s (cash discount), based on force of habits developed in California. About 9 gallons later, I was parting with $18. And given our driving patterns, I figured that we'd do this once a month.</p><p>Do the math. My wife and I were almost gibbering with high-mpg glee. Bleak memories of spending $77 to gas up the Honda Odyssey still echoed in our minds.</p><p>It's nothing to entertain this reaction in the abstract. A car that can get 50 mpg makes tons of sense if you care about your budget. Getting back change from a $20 bill at the pump, on the other hand, is life-altering. Factor in the Prius' rather well-noted reliability and all kinds of saving-for-college scenarios enter the mind, particularly if you've bought used and aren't up against of the premiums of owning a new Prius, which starts at about $24,000 and can go up to $30,000, depending on the trim level.</p><p>Seeing it actually happen in reality is another story. What a glorious car. I don't care if it's the automotive equivalent of eating low-fat plain yogurt. I'm happy to suffer that pain. Besides, it's a comfortable car. The seats aren't benches of wood. You can make the AC blow as hard as you want. It can play classic rock, and play it sort of loud.</p><p>Since buying the Prius, I've taken it on many short jaunts and one long drive. Flip on cruise control and you have to be careful about switching off your brain: The machine floats along on a cushion of steady-state virtue. It's the opposite of driving, say, the Chevy Corvette Z06, a supercar that requires constant, obsessive monitoring as it reaches into your chest and rips your heart out with horsepower.</p><p>The Prius cultivates in the driver the closest thing to a condition of peace I've ever experienced behind the wheel. It also makes you a better citizen: You embrace the speed limit.</p><h2>It was destiny</h2><p>One of my kids asked me why we got the Prius - they know the vehicle well, after a decade in LA, where everyone we knew except us owned one - and I said that it was just gonna happen.</p><p>I don't even think this is demographic destiny. The Prius isn't really an expensive car. You can be a tree-hugging liberal and get one and that makes sense. But I don't know why someone who leans rights and wants to chop down a lot of trees wouldn't want to spend less than $250 a year on gas.</p><p>In fact, there's a strong case that if you're tempted to get a low-mpg SUV due to gas prices, you should consider the Prius. It doesn't make gas free, but it comes close.</p><p>There are some cars you can't avoid. For a time, it was the Volkswagen Beetle, and maybe the Volvo 240. I had a Honda Accord for about a year. In a life with cars, a few characters are destined to appear. I knew there would be a Prius in the garage at some point, as surely as I could predict death and taxes.</p><p>And in that there was a reassuring inevitability. It's nice to know what the future holds.</p><p>Beyond that, all the Prius haters are completely misguided in their hatred - but not because the Prius is a magnificent car deceptively cloaked in sheets of boring. Rather, because the Prius is the first successful car that isn't trying to be a car.</p><p>The distance between a Prius and one of these:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>McLaren</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Or these:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Cadillac</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Or these:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Cadillac</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Is measured in light-years.</p><p>It took me 16 years to buy the paradigm shift, but I finally did.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/toyota-3-wheeled-electric-car-2014-12">Here Is Toyota's New 3-Wheeled Car That's Being Tested In Europe</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="s3OHJjcjoWoFHgnq1kqmwphbTvpENzLe" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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