Re: 2007 Prius Owners: Please post your average city and highway gas useage figures.

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Re: 2007 Prius Owners: Please post your average city and highway gas useage figures. wlcna 11-02-2007
Posted by wlcna on November 2, 2007, 1:24 am
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I rented one recently and drove it on fairly long stretches and got between
40-45 mpg on the highway DOING 75-80 mph, these numbers mainly from the
computer which by my surmise seemed pretty accurate. If you were doing say
60 it should be significantly better.

The city mileage was better than that. I'd say about 45-50 mpg. At times
better than 50. I was stunned at the city mileage in this car, it's an
amazing thing to experience.

I never saw 60 mpg though. 50 seemed fairly common, e.g. in the city.

Car was FAIRLY HEAVILY LOADED ALSO, so take that into account with these
numbers.

So for me, driving the car fairly hard, close to 80 mph on the highway,
mileage was usually 45 average city and highway, quite impressive
especially considering the highway would tend to bring down the number (at
those higher speeds).



Posted by Elmo P. Shagnasty on November 2, 2007, 6:53 am
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> I rented one recently and drove it on fairly long stretches and got between
> 40-45 mpg on the highway DOING 75-80 mph, these numbers mainly from the
> computer which by my surmise seemed pretty accurate. If you were doing say
> 60 it should be significantly better.
>
> The city mileage was better than that. I'd say about 45-50 mpg. At times
> better than 50. I was stunned at the city mileage in this car, it's an
> amazing thing to experience.
>
> I never saw 60 mpg though. 50 seemed fairly common, e.g. in the city.
>
> Car was FAIRLY HEAVILY LOADED ALSO, so take that into account with these
> numbers.
>
> So for me, driving the car fairly hard, close to 80 mph on the highway,
> mileage was usually 45 average city and highway, quite impressive
> especially considering the highway would tend to bring down the number (at
> those higher speeds).

Yup. Exactly right.


Posted by Bob & Holly Wilson on November 2, 2007, 10:38 pm
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> So for me, driving the car fairly hard, close to 80 mph on the highway,
> mileage was usually 45 average city and highway, quite impressive
> especially considering the highway would tend to bring down the number (at
> those higher speeds).

We have some data showing the relationship between mph and MPG:

http://hiwaay.net/~bzwilson/prius/calculated_MPG_Rev_B.jpg

As a general rule, the NHW20 model, the 2004-current, should be just
above the blue line.

Bob Wilson

Posted by Willie K. Yee, MD on November 28, 2007, 1:24 pm
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47.8 mixed country and interstate driving, P&G technique about 1/3 of
the milage. More data on CleanMPG.com

Posted by Bob & Holly Wilson on November 29, 2007, 7:47 pm
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> 47.8 mixed country and interstate driving, P&G technique about 1/3 of
> the milage. More data on CleanMPG.com

If you'll head over to GreenHybrid.com, you can find 1,427 entries for
that model of Prius. The middle 50% mileage:

45.0-50.5 MPG

Bob Wilson

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