Cold Mountain Trip

I've been wondering how my 2012 Prius Three would do in the mountains. The trip is 100 miles each way starting from essentially sea level and going over a 7400 ft summit to the 6300 ft elevation of Lake Tahoe. About a third of the 100 miles is city and level freeway driving. The most difficult up hill part is about 50 miles from about 1200 ft to 7400 ft elevation. It was a very cold day and the heater was on most of the time. There was no problem keeping up with traffic which was often above 50 mph up hill. The final mileage for the trip on the display was 52.8 mpg which means about 49 mpg actual. I was pleased with that result considering much of the trip was in the "just drive it" mode of operation.

 

That was round trip.

 

Yes, the only negative is that the Nav on the Three isn't nearly as good as my Garmin. I do like the XM radio.

 

I agree with all of that and I enjoy the technology involved. I will renew XM too. I'm not sure the a-la-carte works on XM. I thought it required SiriusXM. The Nav works pretty well for getting from point A to point B but the streets on the screen are hard to read as you might want if not going on a route. Of course Garmin has several more features too that's why it is mounted in the little window on the left side of the dashboard.