The Gen2 is all new to me

So you're getting almost 600 and some odd miles to a tank of fuel and that's pretty good especially doing the speeds you do doing the speeds I do I don't see much over 47 one which was the advertised gas mileage for the car when it was brand new which is pretty rare in itself to generally get and certainly I don't run much 80 miles an hour at all 65 and 70 is normal somewhat and like I say around 471 is the norm for my Gen 2 which is in quite good shape with 300,000 mi on it I'm not really using any oil and the engine has good compression and runs well so I guess it's kind of the luck of the draw and I also have a brand new HV battery brand new Panasonic from Toyota HV battery so I don't know how you folks are doing it I have other listers here with Gen 3s that claim they're getting over 50 miles to the gallon pretty much all the time I've never seen 50 miles to the gallon in my Gen 3 and it's got a pretty much new engine in it and is in very good shape no codes nothing wrong with it like I say it must be individual vehicles extreme driving habits I don't have people piled up behind me when I'm driving my Prius either I know people that do and they're still not getting 50 mi to the gallon but I don't care about that when my car was made 50 mi to the gallon was unheard of for a 2008 Prius unless you're driving 34 miles an hour everywhere or something and even then I don't think it would do it but that's great

 

Ev is an addiction.
Hybrid, phev, bev. Resistance is futile

 

that's what inspired me to buy a phev. pure ev around town, hybrid for the road. eventually, bev's will make more sense for more people

 

ohh if it wasn't for tution......EV's would be first on the list..........

 

Many years before I fall into that I may not even make it may die first till it becomes reliable workable there's no way another few years yet maybe five so we get it down into anything some sort of reasonable even just regular automobiles people are paying premium and upgraded prices and all kinds of stuff just to buy a ice car. And electrics people are paying 10 12 15,000 over prices because so many people want them and they can't make them and then the big manufacturers that are just starting to come online like Chevrolet and them no way buddy you think you got ice problems just wait till the electrics there whacking out real quick start going to fubar . It will cost you an arm and a leg to straighten that mess out there's nothing hardly in place everything's $20,000 batteries parts service you'll be keeping your ice car a long time just to make sure when you're in holding cues with the EV people you have a way as you see all these teslarati people they don't have nothing when they don't have their car and they back to Uber and stuff costly costly terrible.

 

Yep, I’ll be doing whatever it takes to keep my 10 year old pip running until things change one way or the other

 

True... I had a wrestler friend who's GF wrecked his car an he got a loaner from Tesla but it took 9 months to get his repared. He is a celebrity so He got a loaner ASAP. But your everyday Joe won't get that treatment from Tesla. Cars are a tool. When they don't work you will need another tool to keep you on the road. Different cars for different jobs. A nissan Leaf would would actually work for my wife with a daily commute of 7 miles round trip. In the winter to head to the MTS we take the Rover. Filling it up with gas is like $160 but I only run maybe 3 tanks a year through it. Driving it around every 2 weeks to keep the battery alive. The cybertruk shows potential for an all in one. Listed MSRP is the same as a Model Y. but I'm sure they will sell for $120 K like the Ford Lightning. Demand is just to high. The Bolt EUV has appeal with the lowest price point.

 

I find it very hard to believe= that you are getting 50 to 55 mpg hwy and 60mpg in town on your 14 year old Prius...
When I purchased my 2008 Prius brand New-I never got anywhere near that kind of MPG, even when it was a brand new car.

 

In the cooler fall months in CO. I could get 58mpg on a tank if I kept it under 60 and accelerated slowly and coasted to every stop. It was hard to do but I did manage it for a few tanks....when I dont care and drive at 75-80 on the HWy. I get about 47 MPG on a tank.

 

He is saying that he is getting= 50 to 55 mpg HWY, driving 200 plus miles a day
at speeds of 65 mostly- but 80 mph if need be.=I find that very hard to believe ...Especially on a 14 year old Prius