New Delhi, July 10 -- When the temperature outside crosses 45 degrees Celsius, running the AC continuously for hours together becomes unavoidable. While it does help you keep cool and comfortable, it also leads to shockingly monthly high electricity bills that can easily stack up. The solution to this problem isn't turning the AC off but getting a modern inverter AC with energy saving features that give you both long lasting comfort and high energy saving.

In order to find out if modern inverter ACs could actually outsmart the heat and energy meter, I tested some of the best inverter ACs in a standard bedroom. For making the calculation easy to understand, I operated each AC at a steady 24 degrees Celsius for around 8 hours every night a...