1st tank

Have you discovered the center arm rest yet?

 

Good job. After a few thousand miles of break in and getting aquatinted with the car you'll be posting 60mpg+ tanks! Well, until winter comes. LOL

 

I too just filled up for the very first time. 47.4mpg on fuelly vs. 46.7 by the car. We are just leaning how to "glide" and all these Prii terms but we also used the A/c the whole time as its 90* + here in NorCal. And on the trip home have 2, 1 mile long hills at a 8% grade. I live in a very hilly area though. We did drive across town to Roseville ca, about 40 min from my home and we averaged 68.7mpg for that trip. 53 mpg on the way back. Our trip to SF and back got us 50.3 with the a/c on the whole way doing 65 to 70 and 1 hour of rush hour SF traffic. No ac needed in SF. It was a wonderful 60* on the coast.

 

Can't wait until I get to fill up and calculate mpgs vs the dash display. I have 3 more bars left of my first tank of dealer supplied gas.

 

Got 60 MPG hand calculated and 56.9 displayed on the dash!

 

For those of you getting a calculated number higher than displayed, I would suggest tossing out your first dealership fillip. They are very unreliable. The dealer doesn't always fill the tank and many people forget to reset trip meters and such before driving off. I have yet to see anyone have a 5% or higher mpg error in favor of the hand calculated unless it was on their first tank which was supposedly filled by the dealer.

 

I did forget to reset the trip prior to driving it off the lot so the dash mileage display does include the miles that were on the car prior to me driving it off the lot. However I made sure note of the exact mileage when I got in the car and I know how many gallons I had to put in on fill up, so I know my calculated number were correct. I reset the trip on my recent fill up so this time around I can get an exact comparison for dash mileage vs hand calculated. I will post my results on my next fill up.

 

Good deal. I have a feeling you're going to get excellent fuel economy once you get used to Erving the car so that 60mpg tanks become commonplace. Congrats on the new car!