  It is shown that dark energy can be obtained from the interplay of the Higgs
boson and the inflaton. A key element is the realization that electroweak
symmetry breaking can trigger a second phase of rolling of the inflaton, which,
when provided with the appropriate couplings between the fields, can be
sufficiently slow to source accelerated expansion in the late time Universe.
The observed dark energy density is obtained without fine-tuning of parameters
or initial conditions due to an intricate conspiracy of numbers related to
inflation, gravity and electroweak physics.
