something's not right

FWIW, I found that I get better mileage using cruise control on the highway. I don't do the "warp stealth" thing either, but it seems that cruise control is more gentle about making adjustments to the gas pedal than my foot, and that seems to help the mileage a great deal. I started driving in the right lane and just going along with traffic in that lane, unless someone is driving very slow over there. I tend to get 45-50 MPG on the highway without any special driving technique, other than CC.

That, and trying to be more conscious about not accelerating towards red lights and stop signs, seems to be giving me the advertised MPGs at around 46.

 

I've had many Type A personalities for friends over the years. :rip:

 

Yeah, a forty mile commute is a bitch, in'nt.

Now that you're stuck with the wrong house, oh sorry, wrong car, the things you can easily do to improve the MPGs are:
- keep the tires inflated to 42/40 PSI front/rear
- if you use "B", stop using it
- slow down (yeah, I know)

By the way, if you don't like the Prius you're gonna hate the Aptera. You'll get run over on the ramps, and crosswinds will blow you off the freeway.

 

You certainly don't have to drive like that.

I drive my Prius pretty hard (70-80 on the interstate, and faster than most traffic on other roads), and I still AVERAGE over 50mpg. I don't know how you are getting such bad numbers??????????

... Brad

 

The original post to this thread sounds like a joke. Is this a joke, mfarmer1?
Are you for real? Or are you pulling our leg. Please tell me, you are pulling our collective leg.

 

Pulling our leg or not, the thing I like about the Prius is that you can get in and drive it like any other car and getter better gas mileage than the average car. AND is you so choose, you can drive resourcefully and get much better mileage than your average car. The Prius gives you this option in a greater way than any other car.

E.g. yesterday I chose to drive conservatively and had my best mini-trip ever, a round trip of 340 miles to JFK airport to pick up niece. I set the cruise at 55 and enjoyed the trip--- 70.1 average on the way there, and then after my neice joined us in the car along with her luggage and driving in rain almost half the way home the total trip average was 66.1.

PA P

 

Sell it asap while you can get top dollar. Don't wait until next year. You can probably go right back to your dealer and get close to what you paid for it.

 

Pump up your tires and keep your foot off the brakes - as in don't use em. That'll fix your MPG woes.

 

Keep in mind that some Prius Drivers don't flush their toilets after using them so that they can conserve water and that they want to "DEMAND" that we all live in "high density population centers".That shrink is probably an OCD specialist.

I'm bored with my Prius after 2 months and may dump it for a VW GTI. The gas isn't that much more expensive and it's worth it for the farfegnugen.

 

Pretty fair retort, I'd say. To be fair (I have to, because it deals with me), you are talking to people who not only like the car, but really like the fact this car represents the start of new era -- not slow cars, but fuel-efficient and gas-free.

Well, now, I don't think that's quite right. The Prius is not just any car. You DO have to know some different things about it. Still, once you know how to turn it on and turn it off, you should be able to drive it like any other car. Legal freeway speeds? I didn't recall San Diego freeways were posted at 75 or 80 mph, though I do recall many people drove about that fast. Around here the limit is 55 in populated areas. We're just so boring.

On the EPA mileage thing, again: You have been getting just under EPA mileage before, so why complain when you are getting the same percentage with the Prius?

 

Maybe there is something wrong with that car. You've never been BETTER than 38? How many miles have you put on that car? Have you had the alignment checked? Are the tires even inflated?

This one would be worth seeing. We know that you'd give it your best effort, at least. I would be interested in seeing how bad the mileage gets -- so long as the car really is in decent shape.

I'll be waiting and watching.op2:

 

I was skeptical about it until I drove it. No religion on this end, I'm a leadfoot...one who is getting 12 mpg better than you are in spite of it. Even the one I test drove and pushed hard to make sure it could accelerate up hills on the interstate and hold speed like I wanted was running in the low 40's over a 12 mile loop. (And I had not read the manual or any hypermiling tips at that point.)

And let's be honest, you didn't come in here asking some innocent questions. You came in chest thumping, insulting as many as you could with your first post.

There's your problem. Assuming something is basically the same that isn't. You wouldn't jump in a car with manual transmission and drive it just like an automatic (despite your protestations to the contrary.) "What do you mean I have to use this other pedal to shift?" "Why can't I start out in top gear?" If you hadn't used one before you would be in for a surprise. ABS and other technology require that the driver understand how they differ in order to use them to advantage.

I mentioned not just the dive computer, but the gear as well. I have hundreds of dives myself and I've also seen what happens when divers aren't familiar with their gear. Folks eyes sure do get big when they run out of air from misreading unfamiliar gauges. And folks who don't read the cautions about dive computers tend to do stupid things with them and end up getting bent...or trying to bum a computer midway through a trip because they didn't check batteries before they left.

If you've got a problem with dive gear behaving differently than you expect, you check out what you can, then ask for help from folks who know more about it or who can repair it. If you instead refuse to do basic checks or understand how the gear functions, while insulting those who could help, nobody is going to feel sorry for you. Instead they are going to conclude the user has a problem. They don't know whether or not the gear has a problem, but they are sure about the user.

 

I think i see your problem... :rain: