2010 Prius III fuel efficiency hypermiling results

Neo · 2010-08-21T15:51:28+00:00

I purchased a 2010 Prius III in April 2010. I've been trying out avariety of hypermiling techniques on it since then and I havepurchased a Scan gauge II recently to refine those techniques.On short 15 mile summer runs the MFD says that the Prius has gottenabout 81 mpg; however, the MFD FE computations tends to over estimatedthe mpg by 3 to 5 mpg so the FE is probably closer to 75 mpg.The overall mileage between tank fill ups (usually about 9 gallons orevery 500 miles or so) is much less.On these extended distances, the 2010 Prius computed mpg has been aslow as 52 mpg and has high as 64 mpg with the average overall mpg tobe around 60 mpg.

Aug 21, 2010 84 Replies

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Bruce Richmond 15 years ago

For the same reason they include little things like warnings not to shift into park while moving. If you do it after being warned not to they are justified in not covering the damage.

And again you are spewing BS.

To me. If I have to pay for them I get to decide if I want them or not. They are not required by law.

Yes. If you don't like it you can go f*ck yourself.

Too bad fella but that is how the world works. There is no law against what I am doing. If you don't want to be near me you can just stay away.

And just because you don't hear everyone calling you a stupid troll doesn't mean that isn't happening also.

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Bruce Richmond 15 years ago

And how much warranty do you think there is left on a 2001 with over

140k miles on it? Thank you for the good wishes anyway :)

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Elmo P. Shagnasty 15 years ago

Then you say:

And any cost you impose on the rest of the world, you don't care about.

Got it.

I can also maneuver myself so that you run into me. Or, even better, I can maneuver myself so that I interrupt your "driving style". I bet that really grinds your ass, when YOU can't do what YOU want--when the outside world interferes with YOU.

That's also how you get the s*it beaten out of you, and how lawyers make money when they realize that you were actually the cause of the accidents you're involved in.

So to sum it up: you are autistic.

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Bruce Richmond 15 years ago

Ok s*it for brains, explain the cost I impose on the world by not buying a block heater.

I'm sure you do that to others just to be an asshole, but you would first have to find me before you could do it to me. So the ass being ground here is yours aince you are powerless to do what you would like to do. ;)~

And you're dreaming s*it for brains.

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Bruce Richmond 15 years ago

Thank you for the info. The tread looks open enough to make them a reasonable all season tire. They say it can handle light snow.

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The tires I am running are a bit more open but not much.

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It would be interesting to know how much difference they give in mpg. In this comparison of 4 tires at Tire Rack the difference between the best and worst was 1.44% or less than 1 mpg for a 56 mpg Prius.

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