Toyota Prius: Fuel consumption

> "Alive&Kicking" wrote: 

In the San Francisco Bay area I saw 50+ mpg, of course the traffic moves
slowly there compared to mid-valley I-5 (California's Autobahn) and doing
80-85 there gets about 41 mpg. I'd imagine 90 would put you in the mid-
30's.

Now that Texas raised their speed limits to 80 on some stretches of western
interstates, I'd bet it will be in the mid-30's there too.

City seems to do best, and slower trafficking cities better still.
 

Dunno. They took that feature off my '05. Maybe 43 mpg for me - but I
usually pass everything out there since I own one of those lead foots.

Of course, some will lie and say they routinely get 70+ mpg and the few
silver ones in the Bay area belonging to some fuel efficiency organization
say "100+ MPG" on their doors. You can recognize them by the odd orange
hand-wrapped wire spools in the trunk area and a bunch of wires going up
front to the driver and a small console. ;o)

However, having seen one of those +100 jobbies up close and personal, I'd be
willing to bet the owner spends much more time on the little console and
looking for an AC wall outlet to steal, er I mean, plug in to.

http://www.planetizen.com/node/19829

B~

Alive&Kicking <aub> wrote:
 

You probably want to look at the mileage database in GreenHybrid.com. In
the meanwhile, this is what I use for my 03 Prius:

http://hiwaay.net/~bzwilson/prius/

However, this data is for an NHW11, the 01-03 Prius. The newer one gets
better.

Bob Wilson

"Alive&Kicking" <aub> wrote in message
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What do you get with the vehicle you use now and what was its EPA rating?

I have a diesel, consuming 6,0 liter per 100 km (I live in Belgium!!). EPA
is 5,9 l/100km....
EPA for the Prius is 4,3 l/100km.
Unfortunately, I don't have a "formula" to convert liter/100 km into MPG
(miles per gallon)...


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Alive&Kicking wrote in alt.autos.toyota.prius:
 

From the Wikipedia:

1 mile per US gallon = 235.208 liters per 100 kilometers
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_superlatives)

Later on this page, it is noted that the highest US EPA mileage is 61-66
MPG for the Honda Insight hybrid; this entry notes equivalent EU
efficiency figures of 3.9-3.6 L/100lm, so it would stand to reason that:

235.208 / (fuel economy in L/100km) = fuel efficiency in MPG

and

235.208 / (fuel economy in MPG) = fuel efficiency in L/100km

Therefore:

Alive&Kicking's diesel:
235.208/6.0 = 39.20133333 = approx. 39.2 MPG

EU fuel economy for the Prius (based on EPA figures?):
235.208/4.3 = 54.69953488 = approx 54.7 MPG

Given these figures, the Prius would thus appear to be almost 40% more
fuel efficient (54.7/39.2 = 1.395408163 = approx 140%) than A&K's
diesel.

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Thank you!!!

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What's the actual price for 1 gallon of gas in the U.S.??

"Alive&Kicking" <aub> wrote in message
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Where I live it was $2.75 US yesterday.