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Posted by Michael Pardee on January 4, 2007, 8:45 pm
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>>>
>>> Hybrid car cost calculator
>>>
>>> www.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/hev/calculator
>>>
>>> Thinking about purchasing a hybrid vehicle? This Department of Energy
>>> site will allow you to compare the lifetime costs and air emissions of
>>> a hybrid to those of a conventional vehicle. It even has data on makes
>>> and models, so you won't have to enter any information.
>>>
>>> For example: Compare a 4-cylinder Toyota Prius to a 6-cylinder Ford
>>> Escape. For the Prius, the purchase price is $19,222, with a fuel
>>> economy of 60 mpg in the city and 51 on the highway. The Ford Escape,
>>> at $23,280, gets 18 mpg in the city and 22 on the highway.
>>>
>>> Enter your annual mileage (15,000), the lifespan of your vehicle (7
>>> years) and average gasoline cost ($2.20). Other factors are resale
>>> value and annual maintenance costs. Enter yours or use the site's
>>> default for your chosen vehicles. In this case, the cumulative cost of
>>> the Prius over seven years was $20,838.30 (taking into consideration a
>>> resale value of $5,598.53), while the cumulative cost of the Escape
>>> was $30,914.28 (with a resale value of $6,269.98). That's an average
>>> annual savings of $1,439.43 and an average per-mile savings of $0.10
>>> with the Prius.
>>>
>>>
>>>
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/lifetravel/stories/DN-NSO_calculate_1106liv.ART.State.Edition1.2c6a802.html
>>>
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>> If the calculator is right, I'm more than $5000 ahead with the Prius over
>> the comparable (but downscale) Corolla! Ours is a 2002 model, which was
>> $20.5K when we bought it.
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>> Of course, that is assuming gas will stay around $2.20 for the next ten
>> years. It will, won't it? When we bought the Prius the comparisons were
>> being made with gas at $1.50.
>>
>> Mike
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> How much did it cost you for a brake job? The tranny? Or anything else
> that craps out on other cars?
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I used the stock figures in the calculator, but as a hard-core DIYer I pay
the cost of parts. For our two 2002 Prius cars, with 170K miles between
them, that is just tires and one windshield apiece. Plus oil, filters,
coolant... of course. At 105K miles my Prius has more than half the front
pads left. One of these days I ought to actually measure them. Disclaimer: I
bought mine at 103K miles a couple months ago; I'm going by the service
records.
Mike
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