We took home our “new-to-us” 2014 Prius v Five last Monday morning. Since then I have put on 405 miles (estimated 70% street, 30% highway miles) before the first fill-up with the gas gauge reading 3 bars remaining and 79 miles of driving range remaining. The average (AVG) indicator read 48.1 MPG. I put in 8.512 gallons; that works out to 47.6 MPG. (Note: I debated whether to drive the Prius until the gas gauge read one bar, but I did not want to run out of gas and I wanted to take advantage of the cheap Costco gas on my way to work this morning.) Overall, I am generally happy with the Prius v. It handles well, stops on a “dime,” rides smooth, and is fairly quite. I love that I am getting great gas mileage per gallon; it is a welcome change from the poor gas mileage of our other cars. I like the Prius’s informative instrument panel, but I wish there were readouts of engine coolant temperature, inverter coolant temperature, voltage, etc. I bought a small OBD port reader (ScanGauge II) to put on the dash to display this information.
