So I pay the asking price of a Suburban and get a little piece of crap that will get me killed if a snowball hits it? If I pack the trunk I can take three shirts or two shirts and a pop-tart?
Why in the absolute Sam Hell would I do that?
As somebody else said, "You first."
I'll add, "Second and third."
You are driving a vehicle that has been refined for 100 years.
Early adopters always pay higher prices and get less refined products, but they pay for the research and development that in the end will provide good mass market products.
Current hybrids are small and expensive because they are using 5 year-old technology borrowed from other applications. The technology will become less expensive and more invisible and better for the task with time.
Two shirts and a pop tart? Save the planet, eat the pop tart. LOL.