New Prius C owners please post

I'm proud owner of 2012 Prius C for almost two months and I'd like to say that my average gas millage is 3.7l/100km ..
best record was 3.5l/100km for distance of 400km .. I'm very happy with this car .. easy 900km on tank !!

 

Just filled up my first tank after getting the car from the dealer 2 weeks ago. Prius displayed 52.6, calculated to be 56.8.

Kind of odd that my calculated is higher than the Prius display as it seems everyone seems to be getting results the other way around. Maybe I didn't fill the tank as full as other people? I just set the pump to be automatic and then it auto stopped and I was done.

 

You can't really rely on how full the gas tank was when it was delivered to you. Throw out the first tank's results and start over. Just use it as a ballpark!

 

I'm getting 46-47 MPG with an 8 mile commute each way, half on and half off the freeway. That's over my first three fills. The computer overestimates my MPG by a little less than 1 MPG.

 

I know it's a lot more money for the PiP, but you are a perfect candidate for one, with a 16 mile total commute. I was talking to the sales manager when I went in for my 10K service and he said that they are having trouble selling the PiPs. I told him that the sales guys have to ask the customers what their commute is and sell it based on that.

 

First fill up! Drove 521 Miles until the fuel gauge started blinking, put in 8.69 gallons of gas . 60 MPG calculated average, loving this car. Car display says I averaged 56.9 MPG, I am actually getting 3 MPG better, weird. See my fuelly Signature for more details.

 

yup. Way out of my price range... I think I'm stuck with my C for awhile. Maybe I'll get one of those plug in conversions!

 

We bought our Prius C just over a week ago, with 8 miles on the odometer and a full tank of gas.

The day after we bought it, we went on a 4-day road trip to the Oregon Coast. Our driving was mostly highway, with numerous hills. I had my foot in it a lot. At our first fillup, indicated mileage was 48.5, actual was 47. At our second fillup, indicated mileage was 47.8 and actual was 45.

I am happy with the fact that it "only" averaged about 46MPG on our first road trip. I know it will get better as the engine breaks in, and for my wifes in-town commute. This car is not at its best on hilly, wide-open roads. Its an in-town commuter and that is what we bought it for.

By way of comparison, our last "new" car was a 2006 VW Jetta TDI. On long freeway trips, we could get about 45 MPG using B99 biodiesel, and with much better performance than the Prius on hills. Around town, however, my wife would get low 30's on her daily commute. Low 30's are great, especially when you are using biodiesel, but we can reasonably expect 50's out of the Prius. So in terms of Prius vs Jetta TDI....they get about equal MPG's on the open road, with the nod going to the TDI in terms comfort, biofuel usage and performance on hills. Around town, however, the Prius will be markedly superior in terms of MPG's as well as maneuverability and ease of parking due to its smaller size.And my wife likes the Prius a lot more than she liked the Jetta. So we are quite happy so far with our purchase. In a perfect world, we would have kept the Jetta for me to drive on my longert commute, but for financial reasons we had to let it go and I will have to be content with my '03 Dodge Caravan and my '96 F-250 4x4.

 

Filled up today. 49.9mpg calculated. 51.6 indacated.
Note. Got exactly the same mileage last take but 50.3 indicated.

 

avg 64mpg past 10 fill ups. Using Fuelly to calculate

 

Owned my Prius C for 4 days. I commute daily 140 miles from the Jersey Shore to NYC that includes local stop & go and long distance highway driving. I'm still in awe that at a stop light the engine doesn't run!!!! My running fuel mpg guage has shown a range of 43 - 72 mpg depending on how I'm driving. Still haven't used my first tank of fuel. I will post the calculated mpg upon filling the tank for the first time. Just a note...I have found that driving "manually" as opposed to "cruise control" seems to provide better mpg numbers. Again, I've only been driving it for 4 days......

 

Back with the numbers!!!! First tank of fuel: 340.0 miles / 6.7 gal = 50.8 mpg

 

First fill up at 388 miles. Took 7.524 gallons. Trip A said the average was 50.3; hand calculation works out to 51.6. Very pleased!

 

well ill report here.. first hybrid first fill up in it. 454 miles and it took 8.602 gallons for a grand total of 30.80. which is a week of new england driving.... equals 52.? mpg per gallon. sure beats the hell out of our former pt cruiser.loving this car so far. and as for function we went food shopping with me, her and three kids. and managed to get 107.00 worth of food in the car also...

 

For the first 1546 miles, I'm averaging 54.1 mpg with mixed city and Interstate driving. I have to admit I find the "eco meter" in the red 99% of the time when I'm exiting corners ​

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The car is definitely most efficient when cruising through the neighborhoods [in EV] at about 25 mph. The fuel economy take a huge hit when on the Interstates where the speed limit is 70. ​

 

What is the speed limit for big rigs? Try to find one of those and use it as a blocker so you can drive below the speed MAXIMUM. No, don't draft it but stay close enough to it that you use it as your blocker. Traffic will choose to go around a big rig and you are like an extension of that truck. It's better than you being all by yourself and people having to go around you. Now you can share the anger with the truck. lol This is how I can get 60+mpg tanks at 60mph in my GenIII despite a 98% freeway commute witha speed maximum of 65mph.

 

I get what you're saying, but I'm not interested. The big rigs here can go 65, however following them is pretty much throwing up a white flag for cracked windshields and huge stone chips all over. I'd rather have my paint than squeeze out whatever mpg.

FWIW, my daily commute is on our local bi-polar autobahn, where everyone goes either 20 under or 20 over. Keeping a 70 mph pace is generally impossible because you're always coming up on the inattentive nice person-draggers while simultaneously angering the psychos dive-bomb swerving while going 90. Moderation appears to be in painfully short supply around here.

 

Well that is why I said don't draft them. At a safe following distance you shouldn't have any trouble with rocks chips but I understand. Just be happy with you're fuel economy then I guess. I won't offer any further advice.

 

Your advice is appreciated, don't get me wrong!

Unfortunately, the safe following distance is probably several hundred feet. It takes that long for the rocks/pebbles to slow down and stop bouncing around. At that point, everyone will dart between you and the truck for no good reason other than there's space there. I probably need to qualify my comments; most of the big rig trucks I encounter are the "loose cargo" haulers that have poor sealing between their gates and the bed and end up accidentally shaking a big percentage of their load [usually gravel] onto the roadway. This is different than a normal semi-truck with a proper closed trailer; those you only have to worry about what they stir up, not what they're dropping everywhere.

Ok, that's off-topic enough for me, LOL. Back to fuel economy!

 

I gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.