Fuel consumption

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~

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

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

Where I live it was $2.75 US yesterday.

then I guess "Mission Accomplished" it is for GW and DC...

I've heard talk of hydrogen, ethanol and bio-diesel but our leaders are
mostly silent about conservation.  The less gas I burn, the less gas costs.
It's the law.

Depends on where you live.

http://www.gaspricewatch.com/new/default.asp  for U.S. prices.

California seems to be the highest (stateside) in the U.S. due to the heavy
regulations.  The higher prices then spread from the regulations adopted
from that state into others (in time).  Diesel is frowned upon (emissions)
and is often more than lowest-priced petrol grade.

Of course, you need to factor in what those in the U.S. pay separately from
other countries in the form of insurance for social services that is
included in their country's gax tax to make the comparison fair.  If you
were to remove private insurance and place all taxes into gas as other
countries do, then U.S. gas would be around $10 per gallon.

Otherwise, Venezuela has nice prices of around $ 0.12 per gallon.

B~

. . .

June 3, 2003

$2.659 @ Rogers, AR
$2.599 @ Forrest City, AR
$2.649 @ Burnsville, MS
$2.589 @ Huntsville, AL

Bob Wilson

$3.39 @ Salinas, CA



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 bwilson4use@hotmail.com (Bob Wilson) wrote:


$3.019 @ Chandler, AZ (+/-, depending on the actual gas station)

--
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease:  Impeach the son of a Bush.

$3.30 (or more depending on station) @ Monterey Pennisula,Ca
--
Michael LeVine -  mlevine@redshift.com
"Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty one except for Gypsy Rose Lee
and every one knew what she had" - Mel Blanc

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 11:10:43 -0500, bwilson4use@hotmail.com (Bob
Wilson) wrote:


$2.74 @ Mt. Pleasant Pennsylvania

Seth_Pgh_Pa wrote:


$2.99 @ Burlington, MA

--
Jean B.

Alive&Kicking politely inquired:

$286.9 in Boise, Idaho is about the best you can do without a discount
card as of June 9.

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)...

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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Glenn Shaw • Indianapolis, IN USA
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Thank you!!!

Alive&Kicking wrote:

The conversion from km/liter is km/liter times 2.38.

The EPA mileage numbers are notoriously HI.  EPA says Prius gets about
60 MPG - HA! Consumers report quotes an average of 44 MPG, city &
highway My 05 gets about 40 - 41 in town but I live at 5200ft and have
lots of hills.  Just returned from a 3300 mile trip and got about 50.

Turn off the air conditioner the get a 1 - 2 MPG boost, if you can take
the heat.

I'm told using synthetic oil may increase mileage 1-2 MPG