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Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Fuel Economy' started by Judgeless, Mar 21, 2012.

  1. Judgeless

    Judgeless Senior Member

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    I did this today.

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    F8L Protecting Habitat & AG Lands

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    *drools*
     
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    spiderman wretched

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    Nice.

    I realize spring as past but I still have eight feet of snow in the yard and in still in the 20s. I suspect I will see my lawn sometime in June and FE stats in the 50s.
     
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    F8L Protecting Habitat & AG Lands

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    Busted! :D
     
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    WOW! Sorry to hear that. We in Chicago have had extremely warm weather this spring. Record breaking temps and it's actually getting to point we are thinking of turning a/c on at night...
     
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    Amazing... we don't even has air conditioning. :)

    I should have clarified a bit, we have gotten 131" of snow this winter but it got up to eight from shoveling the driveway.
     
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  8. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    With an average of 55mph? Nice. Some SHM technique going on there!
     
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    great numbers
     
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    We've been running the AC for a week. :(
     
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    Last (?) snowfall this week in my corner of New Mexico. Other days into the 60s F.

    Don't like the weather today ? No worry, tomorrow will be different :)
    It does tend to wreak havoc on the poor trees though.
     
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    I did not do anything special to get those numbers. I did not follow close to a truck. What is SHM? Here are something’s that seem to help with MPG’s.

    My tires are at 49 and 47 PSI. I have 78,000 miles and I have been running that pressure since Oct 2009. That is when I bought my 2010 Prius. I run snow tires in the winter and the OEM I the summer. I still have snow tires on. They are low resistance Michelin tires. Both do not show any odd wear.

    I use cruise control and had it set at 61 MPH the entire trip. The last 3 miles were 35 MPH. I find if I set it to 37 and back down to 35 MPH it forces the car to run on electricity.

    The outside temperature was 80 deg F and the A/C was set at 74 def F. In the middle of the trip I hit 73 MPG. It dropped to 70.1 by the end of the trip.
     
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    Got my Prius V for 6 days and this morning I got 71.3MPG on a 8.7 mile run.:)
     
    #13 Campoozmstnz, Mar 22, 2012
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