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Looking at a Prius for driving 80K+ a year

Discussion in 'Gen 4 Prius Main Forum' started by ga12r1, Aug 21, 2018.

  1. goldfinger

    goldfinger Active Member

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    Your wife deserves a Lexus for that kind of driving.
     
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    sam spade 2 Senior Member

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    That's kind of what I was trying to say.
    And it might actually LAST 240k miles over 3 years.

    I forgot to ask the OP, who is actually paying for all of this driving or the vehicle ??
     
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    Absolutely. I’m on my 3rd prius. Got 300k plus and just about zero mains costs other than tires, oil, brake pads (pads after 107k miles).
     
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    so what did the OP go for? a Camry Hybrid or the Prius?
     
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    They have not been here in over 42 weeks.
     
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    I would say go for it.
    The biggest outlay, if it goes wrong (unlikely), would be a new traction (HV) battery at around $4k (which is covered by the warranty for the first 100k miles I believe in the US ?). If your current vehicle does 17 mpg and the Prius 50 mpg, going on current gas prices of $3 a gallon, you'll be saving over $9k a year on fuel doing 80k miles. So over 3 years you've saved $27k, even factoring in a new HV battery during that time, you've still saved $23k.