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Fuel Consumption - be proud of your Prius

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Fuel Economy' started by pakitt, Jul 7, 2010.

  1. DaveinOlyWA

    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    24 miles per hour is actully about average for me
    i did spend a lot of time tracking average speed when the seeing if there was any correlation between that and the difference in computed mileage. only when the trip is more than 80 percent freeway i would see higher average speeds.
     
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    Which describes my daily driving. :)

    One day we should work with all the information gathered in the computed vs. hand calculations sticky thread. Hmmm
     
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    24 miles per hour is actully about average for me
    i did spend a lot of time tracking average speed when the seeing if there was any correlation between that and the difference in computed mileage. only when the trip is more than 80 percent freeway i would see higher average speeds.
     
  4. pakitt

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    Here's another one I just managed to do today.
    3.4L/100km --> (true) 3.6L/100km = 65mpg :rockon:

    Conditions: same route as commute, but with couple of stops in between and an extension, car started with warmed up engine after 3hrs stop, tire nominal pressure, temp 24C=75F, A/C set to 23C=73F, sunshine, sleepy saturday traffic, a few more green lights than usual, stop&go as usual, driving no more than 10km/h+ of posted limit, empty cargo, 1 person, ECO Mode, radio off, park lights always on, headlights on in a couple of tunnels.

    I didn't pulse, rather accelerated very progressively when leaving traffic lights. I turned on the A/C after running the fan full blast with A/C off to cool off the air vents/pipes for 1-2 mins.

    Please note the avg. speed (34km/h vs 39km/h) which is slightly less than when I posted the original post.

    Not all bars are showing because I had to stop for an errand (and this resets the bar display - why? for me, it should reset when you reset the Trip A/B...).

    Now - there is a post in the Forums of a guy that did around 90MPG with a Prius 3 - how did he do it? Either he drove 50km/h constant on flat surface with all off, or I don't believe it... :confused:
     

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  5. AkustaVirtaa

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    2,6 liters per 100km is not problem when driving short distances, all you need is full battery, hill that you can drive up with electricity and route to roll back to home with regen braking and EV . I have done it many times. There can’t be any other traffic to do it, because speeds are much less than speed limit, something near 35 km/h.

    I think that my best is from 12 km distance is about 2 to 2,5 liters per 100km. In my opinion those distances are way too short to bragging. That’s why I don’t have any proofs, but I can take photo next time if you like to.
     
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    Had to go into Toronto today with the wife and granddaughter
    Down the 401 to 427 to QEW, to Islington so about 98% hiway
    135 km, avg speed for the trip 93 km/ hr , mileage was 3.9L/100km, 60.31 mpUSg
     
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    Wow that's impressive especially at that average speed. I love it when I see the trip meter below 4.0Lt/100, it's just down right fun.
     
  8. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    jeeez... I only managed 4.2L/100km with the MID showing a 93km/h average
     
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    with gas over $1.05 Litre I have start steal the Prius for work and have the truck sit more
     
  10. AkustaVirtaa

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    Gas price for Prius in Finland is today 1.43 Euros = 1.91490727 Canadian dollars per liter... :D

    Welcome to Finland!
     
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    Thunder Bay boasts the largest Finnish population outside of Scandinavia, and the only Finnish cultural centre in Canada housed in the Finnish Labour Temple along with the Hoito Restaurant. The Finnish-Canadian weeklies Canadan Sanomat and Vapaa Sana publish out of Thunder Bay and Toronto respectively. Another significant Finnish-Canadian newspaper, Vapaus, was published in Sudbury from 1917 to 1974.
    My SIL was Finish but she married a Pole so she is Polished now:D
    In Thunder Bay, Ontario where all the Fins are gas is over $1.10/litre
    Is not College, paid for in Finland? Unversity will cost up 20gs a year in Ontario
     
  12. AkustaVirtaa

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    I know :D, you even have Finnish place names there. :) That’s nice that I have somewhere to go if those huge forest fires in Russia come over border. :D

    Yeah, we have taxes about 60% of the gasoline price. All education in Finland is basically free… (Not in private schools :rolleyes: )
     
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    In Ontario we have about 30% tax
     
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    I guess you mean that 60% of the total price is taxes.
    The price in Israel is about 1.3 Euros / liter and the taxes here more then double the price.
    D:)
     
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    Fuel Consumption

    Mine in my signature
     
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    This discussion of Finland and Finnish culture reminds me of a story: About twenty years ago, one of my friends was on a business trip to Finland. Lacking anything special to do in the evening, he went into a local drinking establishment of the type the British would call a Pub. Inside were a small number of men, all quietly drinking. My friend sat at the bar and ordered a drink, marveling at the lack of conversation. After about two hours of totally quiet drinking, the man next to him plunked his glass down on the bar, turned to my friend, said something to him in Finnish, and raised his fists ready to fight.

    From this one exchange, my friend is now convinced that Finnish socializing is a two-step process: 1) Drink quietly until sufficiently intoxicated, 2) Fight.

    Tom
     
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    Yep, we have own Wikipedia page to explain how much tax is in gasoline price. I did read it and even after that I can’t understand how much exactly there is tax. :D But it is somewhere 60% of the total price of the gasoline. :D

    LOL, In Finland you better watch where you are drinking. :D Usually if you are anywhere in the world the pub where nobody isn’t talking after you step in, you better change place... :D Haven’t you see any western movies?

    But it is true that regular Finns usually speak only when they have something to say. And Finns are still Finns because of our fighting skills… ;)
     
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    So I think I'm finally getting the hang of this stuff. I drove up the hill to get a friend 3 times this week though so that probably hurt my mileage. Also hopped on the freeway to go places a few times. Overall, my best average yet.
     

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    Well done Andino!
     
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    [posted on another thread, but here as well as more in topic...]

    I was the past 2 days driving around Bayern with 2 passengers for about 653km-406mi, mild 24-27C/75-80F, some light luggage, AC on (!!), tire pressure nominal.

    It was a mix of highway (where you *have* to drive never less than, indicated, 135km/h-84mph (otherwise you are really obstructing traffic), very often at 145km/h-90mph and sometimes at 175km/h-108mph - you know, just for fun though there is often so much traffic you cannot really run that fast for long stretches), country side (max allowed speed 100km/h-62mph, which means I went 110km/h-68mph indicated) with lots of breaking down to 50km/h-45mph when going through villages, and city. Always hilly. On german highways hills are *very* long. You cannot optimise the drive over a hill.

    I got an overall average of 4.9L/100km-48mpg (5.2L/100km-45mpg real) - see attached pic. Is that bad?

    If not, I will need to write a post on what happens in the Prius and how you can achieve good FE when driving "fast" - that is, fast compared to US speeds - most of the techniques described by hypermilers/US drivers here at PC, don't really apply when the average speed on country roads and highway is (way) higher than the average US speed limit on a highway...and when you don't want to drive like a granny.