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| Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Central NJ, USA
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Friends: 0 | OK, so I have gotten close to empty the last two time's before refilling. (not by choice) The question I would like to toss out to everyone is... how many miles (on average) does everyone get on that last gasp of fuel? To tell the truth, I've been chickening out at 5 miles. Have others gone farther without having to walk the rest of the way? |
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Friends: 47 | Hard to say, 50 is probably safe 95% of the time, but occasionally you'll run out before that depending on your usage and how much was filled and terrain. Many have gone 100+, but that's definately risky. |
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Friends: 0 | If you do run out of gas will it run on electric for a short distance? |
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Friends: 0 | approx 1 mi TOPS |
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Friends: 0 | so, for you posters stating the number of miles you have left before chickening out... how do you know (or are you estimating) the number of miles you have left? My other car, '03 Passat does have a "miles left" estimation on the instrument panel, but I haven't seen such a monster in my new Prius. Sorry to be dim... |
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Friends: 14 | CANVIEW give gas gauge reading in percent. average tank level when the last bar started blinking has been about 12-14%. in the winter, i figure about 5 miles per 1% so, 50 miles is definitely doable. HOWEVER, your mileage may vary. i will say one thing... my all time tank will be going down this summer as i will have a lot more confidence to go farther after the blinking starts. in my blog, i talked about when the gas gauge actually went to zero because i didnt do my math right. made it to the gas station without any problems but for the 4 miles that the gauge read 0%... i was a bit concerned...
__________________ My Blue 2010 : Last tank 506.9 @ 47.8 pump (53.0 MFD) 8.29 CPM, Lifetime:37,908.7 miles MPG pump. 50.02 (55.12 MFD) 6.58 CPM. Summer MPG 53.79 Winter: 47.71 My 2011 Nissan Leaf this week; 312.3 miles; LT; 16,126.7 miles @2.65 CPM. (2.17 MTD) fuel cost; weekly $6.87 Lifetime $427.95 If my Prius was a Leaf; last fillup would have been $11.04 instead of $42.00 ( $2.17 cents per mile) |
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Friends: 0 | I thought that I read in the manual for my '05 that once the fuel gets REALLY low ther will be a message that comes on screen. I don't have the manual handy but can someone confirm this? I've only received the blinking rectangle and probably drove about 15 - 20 miles on it before refueling. |
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