Posted by Elmo P. Shagnasty on November 25, 2007, 4:16 pm
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> > > That's not my experiences. My Prius gets 52 to 60 mpg on highway driving,
> > > year around.
> >
> > Bullshit.
>
> perhaps its highway driving downhill
Or else he drives a steady 46mph on the highway.
The rest of what he says is right-on, but if he's in weather where he's
getting 38mpg in winter, then no normal highway driving shows him
52-60mpg year round.
Posted by Doctor Einstein on November 26, 2007, 12:20 pm
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:16:57 -0500, "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
>In article
>> > > That's not my experiences. My Prius gets 52 to 60 mpg on highway driving,
>> > > year around.
>> >
>> > Bullshit.
>>
>> perhaps its highway driving downhill
>Or else he drives a steady 46mph on the highway.
>The rest of what he says is right-on, but if he's in weather where he's
>getting 38mpg in winter, then no normal highway driving shows him
>52-60mpg year round.
How's your sister Rosie O'Donnell?
WAVE
Posted by Bob & Holly Wilson on November 26, 2007, 9:00 am
> That's not my experiences. My Prius gets 52 to 60 mpg on highway driving,
> year around. Don't believe Toyota's listed ratings. In town it's stop and
> go, ad nauseam. I get about 43 mpg in the summer and 38 mpg in the winter.
>. . .
> Like most people, I drive short trips in town and
> not much highway travel.
Short trips without paying attention to warm-up is death to mileage. It
is 10 miles to my work and that is pretty close to the lower limit for
efficient City driving by doing the following:
1-2 miles - keep at 25 mph, neighborhood speeds to warm-up Prius
6-7 miles - 35-38 mph or 46-65 mph, avoid transiting 42 mph
1-2 miles - back to 25 mph, cool-down to maximize EV at the end
After 35,000 miles, my life-time average is 52.5 mph and I'm driving the
older, 2003 Prius.
Bob Wilson
Posted by L Alpert on November 27, 2007, 11:54 pm
>> javawizard wrote:
>>
>> As an example, I usually drive 10K miles per year, with about 70%
>> highway. My current vehicle (2004 EXL V6) gets 22 mpg city, 30 mpg
>> highway, while hybrids get lower mileage highway then they do city
>> driving conditions.
>>
> That's not my experiences. My Prius gets 52 to 60 mpg on highway driving,
I have no experiences with a hybrid, but most manufacturers advertise a
lower MPG highway driving then city, at least in most of the commercial
material I have seen.
> year around. Don't believe Toyota's listed ratings. In town it's stop and
> go, ad nauseam. I get about 43 mpg in the summer and 38 mpg in the winter.
> I don't jump start at intersections, but I don't hold up traffic by
> creeping out either. I don't know how they are able to get away saying 60
> in the city unless it's all beltline driving. Most towns don't have
> beltlines. (Besides, they are highways) Believe Consumers Reports when
> they say it's 46 mpg all around average. Like most people, I drive short
> trips in town and not much highway travel.
> I heard the EPA is finally waking up and changing their method to
> calculate city driving. Up to now they cater to big business and not the
> consumer.
> All in all. I love my Prius. I drive about 12k miles per year. No matter
> how much Toyota and other companies lie, I still get two to three times
> the mileage I've ever got on any compact car.
I've gotten 35-38 average MPG in an old Subaru that I used to have (late
70's model). One would have thought it was powered by a squirrel cage,
though.
Quite good in the snow....
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Posted by richard schumacher on November 28, 2007, 4:10 am
> I have no experiences with a hybrid, but most manufacturers advertise a
> lower MPG highway driving then city, at least in most of the commercial
> material I have seen.
In the US automakers are required to show only the EPA's figures, which
are faulty. Real Priuses usually get better fuel economy on the highway
than in stop-and-go city driving.
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> > > year around.
> >
> > Bullshit.
>
> perhaps its highway driving downhill