Hybrid Gas Mileage Good? Bad? As Expected?

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#1 of 519 Hybrid Gas Mileage: Good? Bad? As Expected? by Sylvia STAFF Jun 29, 2004 (10:34 am)
Hybrid owners - how has your gas mileage been? Better than you expected? Worse? Replies to this message: terryh2u (Jul 04, 2004 12:30 pm) mia420 (Aug 20, 2004 7:33 am) stevedebi (Aug 20, 2004 8:49 am) cmp (Apr 26, 2005 4:47 pm) gruchy (May 14, 2005 6:32 am) solar_dad (May 15, 2005 10:18 pm) cablack (May 16, 2005 7:01 am) danashields (Jun 20, 2005 7:34 am) ken33 (Aug 09, 2005 5:45 pm) punawele (Dec 22, 2005 10:59 am) hybriddriver1 (Feb 28, 2006 8:06 am) hot_georgia (Mar 19, 2006 11:38 am)
#3 of 519 Prius fuel economy by mcats Jul 02, 2004 (4:26 am)
I'm getting exceptional fuel economy in my Prius... here's my website for it: http://homepage.mac.com/priustech/Prius/Menu9.html Replies to this message: Sylvia (Jul 02, 2004 2:01 pm) gagrice (Jul 02, 2004 3:28 pm) mcats (Jul 04, 2004 11:42 am) mcats (Jul 04, 2004 12:16 pm) eaa (Apr 30, 2005 5:30 am)
#4 of 519 Re: Prius fuel economy [mcats #3] by Sylvia STAFF Jul 02, 2004 (2:01 pm)
Replying to: mcats (Jul 02, 2004 4:26 am) Great site! Welcome to Edmunds.com
#5 of 519 Re: Prius fuel economy [mcats #3] by gagrice Jul 02, 2004 (3:28 pm)
Replying to: mcats (Jul 02, 2004 4:26 am) Yes, welcome to the forum. Do you have 2 or 3 Prii? Are You going to corner the market like the Hunt brothers? Just kidding, sounds like your expeerience has been very good with the Prius. Look forward to long term reports. Replies to this message: mcats (Jul 04, 2004 11:42 am) mcats (Jul 04, 2004 12:16 pm)
#7 of 519 Re: Prius fuel economy [gagrice #5] by mcats Jul 04, 2004 (11:42 am)
Replying to: gagrice (Jul 02, 2004 3:28 pm) Lol, thanks for the welcome! I have one Prius, which I traded in an '01 Prius for. My father is trying to place a pre-order for an RX400H... if he's able to get one then I'll update my website with info about that as well. Replies to this message: mcats (Jul 04, 2004 12:16 pm)
#8 of 519 Re: Prius fuel economy [mcats #7] by mcats Jul 04, 2004 (12:16 pm)
Replying to: mcats (Jul 04, 2004 11:42 am) To be fair... I should bring up that my dealer service person overfilled my oil at the last change (it was in March)... at least according the dipstick. I'm not sure if there is damage or not, so I am having it checked and a little of the oil drained. There are discussions about this on another Prius group (Prius_2g on yahoo groups)... once I find out about the oil issue I will also update my webapge with that info.
#9 of 519 Re: Hybrid Gas Mileage: Good? Bad? As Expected? [Sylvia #1] by terryh2u Jul 04, 2004 (12:30 pm)
Replying to: Sylvia (Jun 29, 2004 10:34 am) Although I would like it to be better, we're still getting about 48 MPG in our 2004. I think part of the problem is 2 fold, 1st: We live in a very hilly area and we do alot of highway mileage which doesn't allow the electric motor to perform as well as in city driving and 2nd: The EPA estimates were not designed for real world driving. I just noticed that in the current issue of Consumer Reports that the EPA may start collaborating with them to develop estimates that are far more accurate than the system they use currently.