Go Green And Save 'Green' On Car Insurance

LOS ANGELES, June 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric vehicles. Hydrogen vehicles. Hybrid vehicles. Plug-in hybrid vehicles. Partial Zero Emissions Vehicles (PZEV) and ultra-low emissions vehicles (ULEV). Mercury Insurance recently analyzed The Green Car Journal's list of 2016 vehicles leaving the smallest environmental tread-mark on the world that consumers can purchase today.

Mercury Insurance, the least expensive insurance option for electric car owners in California, as named by Nerdwallet, put together a list of the 10 most affordable 'green' cars to insure for environmentally conscious consumers.

Mercury's research and development team examined the top 200 make/model combinations for 2016 to compile a list of the most affordable vehicles to insure. The list was created based on the Mercury price for full coverage – liability, comprehensive and collision – in California.

 Here is the complete top-10 list for 2016 green vehicles, beginning with the cheapest to insure.

1. Honda Fit
2. Ford Fiesta SFE
3. Honda CR-V
4. MINI Cooper Countryman
5. Ford Edge
6. Mazda3 (5-door)
7. Toyota Highlander Hybrid LE Plus
8. Hyundai Elantra
9. Ford Focus Electric FWD
10. Toyota RAV4 LE/XLE

"Going green shouldn't cost you a lot of money, and Mercury wants to let consumers know that low emission vehicles can be affordable to insure," said Jim Reeves, group manager, R&D for Mercury Insurance.

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