How far can you go between fillups?

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  1. larryakoch

    larryakoch Junior Member

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    I got 525 miles on my initial fillup which was 28% EV and 72 HV. Theoreticlly you could go thousands of miles between fillup if all your driving was short term EV. I'm curious what other have gotten.
     
  2. JamesCSmith

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    So far I have gone 521, 512, 565, and 604 miles on 4 tanks of gas.
     
  3. bisco

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    1150 first tank, 50/50 ev/hv.
     
  4. retired4999

    retired4999 Prius driver since 2005

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    Not counting the four tanks of gas to get the car home, the last two tanks, first tank 810 miles with 245 mile highway trip, last tank with four bars still on gas gauge. is at 1600 miles.(268mpg) all in town commuting.
     
  5. larryakoch

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    Also any figures on overall mileage. I'm getting 60 mpg on my first tank. I set trip B shortly after I got the car and am not going to change it for the life of the car.
     
  6. pineprius

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    Bought on March 15 and so far 25% city driving and 74mpge. My electric bill averages about $6 to 8. more a month. As we drive more locally it climbs to over 85 mpge. Higher city percentage with charging equals better mpge.
     
  7. bisco

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    how do you want to figure mpg? there are many alternatives.
     
  8. rogerv

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    Not positive on this, as I haven't experienced it myself, but my daughter tells me that her "lifetime mpg" reset at 10k miles on her 2011 Prius. This was not part of the 10k service, but happened separately from that.
    My current tank is reading 129 mpg avg after 595 miles. It was up to 140 before a trip involving freeway driving the other day. I have 3606 miles on the car, and the trip b odometer shows 88 mpg average. Overall EV/HV useage is 32/68%. My tank ranges so far have been between 645 and 834 miles. But a lot depends on when I fill up, for convenience before making a trip, or just when the tank is running low.
    The computer shows I've used 40 gals, but that is a little optimistic, because as of my last fill I have put 39.658 gallons in the tank, and used up 3 pips on the gauge since then. Now it could be that the computer is keeping track of how much gas I put in, but I'm inclined to believe it is instead tracking fuel burned.
    The bottom line is, of course, YMMV. And as it varies, you'll see more or less out of each tank. There have been reports here of 1000 mile tanks, and I figure I'l l hit that one of these days. But mainly I'm just happy to be buying a whole lot less gas these days.:)
     
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  9. priuskitty

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    Filled up April 23rd. Got five gallons now left in my tank. traveled 373 miles from New York to here. So...... 1246 miles minus 373 = 873 miles divided by 5 = 174.6 mpg