# Test Drive Results 2017 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Electric Car

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/
- Published: 2017-05-09T04:04:51-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

Can you say 42-44 MPG on the highway in stop and go traffic with a RAV4 Hybrid?!
Also trying to get onto the Tri Borough bridge in New York City?! So basically this
SUV loves stop and go traffic! It says Bring it!  I love congestion because I go
all electric vehicle!

As I’ve shown Toyota has written before:

## **Looks Great and Less Filling**

Fewer fill-ups will become the norm. All with the addition of a new, fuel efficient
RAV4 Hybrid. Higher MPG comes without sacrifice. That’s as the RAV4 Hybrid will 
deliver more horsepower and better acceleration than the conventional RAV4.

 [   ⌊IMG_0345⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0345/)

 [   ⌊IMG_0354⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0354/)

 [   ⌊IMG_0309⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0309/)

 [   ⌊IMG_0351⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0351/)

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 [   ⌊IMG_0356⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0356/)

_**As [Toyota](https://web.archive.org/web/20170521062719/http://pressroom.toyota.com:80/releases/2017+toyota+rav4+crossover+new+pricing.htm)
stated recently about the RAV4:**_

With more than 20 years under its belt, [Toyota’s popular RAV4 hybrid](https://greenlivingguy.com/2025/09/toyota-crown-signia-limited-hybrid-test-drive-review/)
continues to set the stage for the compact sport-utility segment, bringing high 
doses of value, style, and safety to discerning drivers. The 2017 RAV4 offers a 
bevy of standard-issue safety technologies with its Toyota Safety Sense™ P active
safety package, and is the only vehicle in its (class/segment) to have a standard
pre-collision system with pedestrian detection.

**_Yet this one is the most powerful and fuel-efficient RAV4 in the model’s history
according to Toyota. _**

While good ol EPA and [Toyota report that the 2017 RAV4 Hybrid](https://greenlivingguy.com/2025/05/toyota-trailhunter-tacoma-hybrid-review-test-drive-review/)
achieves an EPA-estimated 34 mpg city/30 mpg highway/32 mpg combined and comes equipped
with an Electronic On-Demand All-Wheel-Drive System with intelligence (AWD-i) as
standard. Yet in eco mode it couldn’t leave 40-42 mpg. No kidding!! So is the EPA
giving false data?? LOL. No they just drive it wrong!  Common!  I only drove in 
ECO mode. So they drove in normal mode. Whatever!!

 [   ⌊IMG_0329⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0329/)

 [   ⌊IMG_0349⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0349/)

 [   ⌊IMG_0352⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0352/)

 [   ⌊IMG_0357⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0357/)

 [   ⌊IMG_0355⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0355/)

 [   ⌊IMG_0350⌉ ](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/05/test-drive-results-2017-toyota-rav4-hybrid-electric-car/img_0350/)

Check this! The “[hybrid-related components](https://pressroom.toyota.com/2017-rav4-gains-new-grades-standard-toyota-safety-sense/)”
including:

1.the HV battery

 1. battery control module
 2. hybrid control module
 3. inverter with converter

are all covered for eight years/100,000 miles. In applicable states, hybrid-related
component coverage is 15 years/150,000 miles with the exception of the hybrid battery,
which is covered for 10 years/150,000 miles.