Kids Science Project - Prius Owner's Feedback Needed

What year is your Prius? 2007
What color is your Prius? Magnetic Gray
What mileage do you get with your Prius? 55mpg
What car did you replace with your Prius? 1996 Isuzu Oasis
What mileage did that car get? 22mpg

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2006
2. What color is your Prius? Silver
3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? Over 100 and my best reading for a weekend is 191mpg. Although sometimes I don't use any gas on the weekends.
4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)? 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
5. What mileage did that car get? About 22mpg.

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2007
2. What color is your Prius? Magnetic Gray
3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? 53.3 MPG lifetime (30,000 Miles)
4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)? 1997 Eagle Talon and 1991 Ford Explorer
5. What mileage did that car(s) get?
'97 Talon 32 MPG drove it about 325 miles a week
'91 Exploder 15 MPG drove it about 75 miles a week

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2004
2. What color is your Prius? Spectra Blue Mica
3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? 47 mpg
4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)? Ford Taurus 1995
5. What mileage did that car get? 22 mpg

I should note that I bought my Prius used, and I've only driven it for about 2,600 miles. I bought it with 72,800 miles on it.

My commute is 80 miles per day with 10 miles driven per day for work purposes.

 

1) 2008
2) Barcelona Red
3) 48.5 mpg currently
4) 1999 F150 4x4
5) 14 mpg approx

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2007

2. What color is your Prius? Mag Gray

3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? 60 MPG

4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)? '94 Saturn SC1

5. What mileage did that car get? 30 MPG (on a good day, with a tail wind )

 

2004 Spectra Blue Mica? Are you sure? SBM is a new color for 2008.

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2006
2. What color is your Prius? Black
3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? 54 MPG (over 50000 miles)
4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)? 2003 Honda Accord (which my wife now drives instead of her 1996 Jeep Cherokee)
5. What mileage did that car get? Honda: about 32 MPG. Jeep: about 17 MPG.

 

2004

Millennium Silver

43mpg life average

'87 Lincoln mark VII

16 to 18mpg

Now.. for my question.. how can you calculate savings without knowing how many miles we've saved with our prius already?...

i have 93k miles on my prius.

so.. i've saved roughly 4 to 5 grand so far...

 

Good luck with the science project. My son won 3rd place at the county science fair (caffeine effects on heart rate)

 

1. 2006
2. Magnetic Gray
3. Look for Spirit Queen on GreenHybrid - Interactive Hybrid Cars Resource. The Cliff's Note answer is 51.8mpg lifetime. Over the last few tanks the average is in the high 50's but I don't keep a moving average.
4. 1989 Oldsmobile Delta 88
5. 22.5mpg Mileage was 237583.0 when I gave it to my neighbor.

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2008

2. What color is your Prius? Spectra Blue

3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? "Lifetime" (4 months) -- 48 mpg

4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)? 1995 Jeep Wrangler

5. What mileage did that car get? 20-22 mpg



Good project, Cali, we'll be very interested in the results! (You're sure this is your daughter's project, and not yours? )

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2006
2. What color is your Prius? Red
3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? 63.5mpg
4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)?Toyota Tundra 4x4 4door truck
5. What mileage did that car get? 10mpg


I would not trade my prius for anything.

 

Wth???

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2007 (touring)
2. What color is your Prius? Black
3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? 45.3 mpg lifetime
4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)? Cadillac brougham
5. What mileage did that car get? 16 mpg

im really looking forward to these results

 

1. 2007
2. Barcelona Red
3. 48
4. Jeep, Cherokee, 2001
5. 15. downhill, on a good day, with a tailwind

 

I replied earlier but I thought I'd add a piece of relevant information: This project, especially the part about calculating what people are saving, can't quite work without an important bit of context from responders:

How many miles do you drive per year?

My Prius drives about 10k miles/year.

 

1. 2008
2. Classic Silver
3. 48
4. Trailblazer SS 2006
5. 15. downhill, on a good day, with a tailwind

 

1. What year is your Prius? 2007
2. What color is your Prius? Classic Silver
3. What mileage do you get with your Prius? 54.8mpg
4. What car did you replace with your Prius (make, model, year)? 2003 Honda Element EX 4WD
5. What mileage did that car get? 24mpg

(15,000 miles/year average)