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A Prius history of time

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  1. bwilson4web

    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    Perhaps the 3d time is the charm, the total change from the first North American Prius:
    year city combined highway model
    1 2001 42 MPG (100%) 41 MPG (100%) 41 MPG (100%) compact sedan
    2 2004 48 MPG (114.3%) 46 MPG (112.2%) 45 MPG (109.8%) hatchback
    3 2010 51 MPG (121.4%) 50 MPG (122.0%) 48 MPG (117.1%) hatchback
    4 2016 54 MPG (128.6%) 52 MPG (126.8%) 50 MPG (122.0%) hatchback
    5 2016 58 MPG (138.1%) 56 MPG (136.6%) 53 MPG (129.3%) Eco

    This is for all models starting with the 2001.

    The following tables show the incremental changes between generations:
    city combined highway model
    1 52 MPG (100%) 48 MPG (100%) 45 MPG (100%) 2003 Prius: original EPA
    2 60 MPG (115.4%) 55 MPG (114.6%) 51 MPG (113.3%) 2004 Prius: original EPA
    3 EPA changed the tests
    4 42MPG (100%) 41 MPG (100%) 41 MPG (100%) 2003 Prius
    5 48 MPG (114.3%) 46 MPG (112.2%) 45 MPG (108.8%) 2004 Prius
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    7 48 MPG (100%) 46 MPG (100%) 45 MPG (100%) 2009 Prius
    8 51 MPG (106.3%) 50 MPG (108.7%) 48 MPG (106.7%) 2010 Prius
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    10 51 MPG (100%) 50 MPG (100%) 48 MPG (100%) 2015 Prius
    11 54 MPG (105.9%) 52 MPG (104.0%) 50 MPG (104.2%) 2016 Prius: Non-Eco
    12 58 MPG (113.7%) 56 MPG (112.0%) 53 MPG (110.4%) 2016 Prius: Eco


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    Are these numbers for Gen IV confirmed yet?
     
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    actually, the '04 got 60 mpg initially, then government motors lobbied for a change in rules.
     
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    Yea I checked into those numbers before buying my 2010 and the people that drove their cars "normal" got closer to the adjusted EPA on Gen IIs. Disregard my last post, saw the Gen IV "secret" information is being released.
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    Most people should get closer to the new EPA window numbers in any car.
    The large number of complaining owners of new hybrids had no sway then.:p
    The old formula worked for comparisons, but the numbers were still higher than what most got. The hybrids, and other high efficiency cars, just made that discrepancy more obvious.
     
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    The funny thing is in Oct 2005 when I picked up our NHW11 in Fort Worth, the first segment to Shreveport measured 39 MPG. I knew it was rated at 45 MPG and briefly thought it was broke. But it was sun set and the next segment I did at ~62 mph and returned 52 MPG. The rest of the trip was broken into two hour segments at different fixed speeds and gave me:
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    So not knowing any better, I tuned the car for the EPA numbers and adjusted my driving style to meet or exceed them . . . using cruise control.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    i had no trouble meeting the spa when i bought my '04. i was shocked when they rewrote history, and it was funny how many perspective buyers actually thought the prius mpg's had changed. i guess gm got what they wanted.
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    I didn't have much trouble getting EPA either(but a spa would have been better) in the Prius, but neither did I have any getting old EPA in my previous cars(Taurus, Ranger, Matrix) when I wasn't rushing around, being aggressive.

    I also know how to swim, and yet there are many that don't, and some that don't even want to learn.
     
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