Currently averaging around 110 MPG overall

I haven't posted in a while but thought I'd give an update on our overall combined MPG which has recently been staying around 110 MPG.

We bought our 2020 Prius Prime XLE new and recently went over the 21,000 mile mark. We live in a small town and can avoid using any gas at all when doing any daily local driving, we usually only use gas about twice a week when we travel outside our local town to around the nearest big city about a 45 mile trip each way.

I am also very pleased with the average range we get in EV (electric only) mode. While the manual states a 25 miles range for EV, our experience has leaned more towards about 30 miles in EV mode. We do live in the south and it is my understanding that warmer weather is supposed to help you get better EV range. We usually don't use the air conditioning unless it gets extra hot like in the upper 80's or 90's with higher humidity, but yesterday we were pleasantly surprised to still get somewhere around about 27-29 miles in EV mode even when using the air conditioning (had it set at about 72 degrees) not sure of the exact miles as I didn't see the exact time it went off EV mode but had been watching it enough to know it hadn't been off EV mode long when I did notice and could estimate the miles, maybe anywhere from 27 to 29 EV miles with the air conditioning on.

 

Thanks, hey with how gas prices are getting the less gas we can get by with the better

I do try to remember to use the downhill charge as well as getting the most out of coming to a stop for red lights and stop signs to stretch the EV mode and preferring gradual starts over jack-rabbit starts

We are just glad we decided to get the Prius Prime back when there was not as much demand for hybrids and EVs as there is now with much higher gas prices, we got a good deal with 0% interest back then. Back when we decided on the Prius Prime my wife had simply decided she wanted us to get a Toyota after hearing how her friend had a Toyota (non-hybrid) that was still working great with somewhere around 400K miles, so after researching Toyota models I told my wife why not get a Prius Prime because you never know when gas prices might get crazy later on, and now we are glad we did

 

Yep, we received our ours in the first half of 2020 before there started being more of a demand for them, we still had to factory order ours but that was only because being in a non-carb state there were not a lot of plug-in Primes on car lots reasonably close enough and none with both the color and model (XLE) we wanted, so not being in a big hurry we ordered ours. Non-carb states didn't have as good of deals as carb states but we did manage to get 0% interest and no early payoff penalty.

Wow, your "just under 200mpg" is fantastic, congrats !!!!

Our 110mpg+ could be much better if we did more local driving, but living in a very small town where my normal most distant destination, the grocery store, is only about 2 - 2 1/2 miles away, so I could consolidate my shopping runs and go to local stores like Dollar General, CVS, the grocery store and back home and maybe only have traveled roughly about 7 to 8 miles total. (I need to check my odometer sometime to get a more precise number)

....but anyhow, I love it when our trips to get somewhere and back home is within the EV range so we can avoid having to use any gas at all those times