Canadian Prius c fuel economy thread

i have 7000 km on my c and its averaginf 4.6 l .on a trip to to at 100km i got 3.9 and on the way back 4.1 my city milage is dropping off lately with the cold weather

 

I tend to drive – mostly – unchanged from regular gas habits. I drive in the left lane when I feel like it, pass more or less when it suits me and so on. I have made that choice consciously and am comfortable with the economy hit from the 4.5 I know I could get if I was particularly diligent. That said, I get 5.2-3 L/100 on average, which is still very nice.

 

After 12000km, I am averaging 4.2 l per km. this includes 1 return trip each from Vernon to cranbrook and Vernon to Spokane. I live in a mountainous area. I only drive to work once per week. (About 90 km return). I find that my mileage is improving.

 

hello WongNog & Canadian folks...

registered here in 2005 and dreaming of hybrid or full electric since...

my previous econo car was a 2005 diesel 40 HP SMART so i'm really used to slow vehicul
3.7L/100 on highay and 4L/100 average was really easy to achieve with my SMART
NOW : 100hp with PRIUS C soft ride , i feel like inside a Benthley !

Nobody will get nice L/100 result if they drive this car like normal car and run in a hurry
specially in Canada cold climate... 5L/100 average seem realistic with the C ? i guess
FORD fiesta+YARIS et other regular gas modèle would average 6 or 7L/100 with
the same driving condition ? i was hopping for a 2L/100 benefit with the C...

I'v took delivery of my Orange C yesterday... was really happy ! my biggest car investement
in a life time... yesterday ride average gave me 4.6L/100 highay+city

-15 deg C in Montreal this morning ... my trail to work gave me 4.7l/100 (19km city+highway)

i had to chose the TECHno package with GPS+mag (no regular on stock with this color) and i also
ask for heated seat so i can reduce heating request & maybe more electric run time ?

 

My mileage has deteriorated since my last post. This is no doubt due to the cold weather. I am now averaging 4.7 I find that the ice is on more often undoubtably to keep the engine coolant warm. I am not getting the very cold weather that some have mentioned however it is making a difference. The winter tires probably don't help either.

 

I'm finding that sometimes as I pull into the garage, the engine starts roaring up despite having enough battery to park without it. This may be in part because I have to open a window and fumble with a key in order to gain access to my building's garage, which cools the car interior and triggers the heat.

So now, on the last few minutes of my drive I press the fan off button to keep it from draining unnecessary gas.

Also finding that in cold weather, Vancouver drivers make dumber snap decisions. This affects my fuel economy greatly, as my estimates of how to coast efficiently are disrupted by illegally stopped cars, confused slow drivers, etc.

Galaxy Nexus ? 2

 

Here in Edmonton, there are so many bad drivers, that it'll be easy to get gov. ratings when summer rolls around lol. The way these dummies drive, you'd think they're all hypermilling. So now, I just get behind one of them and I don't get blamed for being the slow poke haha. Hell, I could be driving with my window down, middle finger pointing to the sky, swearing at the idiot in front of me and still be hypermilling!
I love this place, especially with all the Rig-Rockets around here (Rig-Rocket: Jacked-up diesel P-Up with preferably HD badges and 1 Ton minimum rating), when I go fill up, there is usually a Rig-Rocket or big nice person SUV right next to me and although they started fuelling before me, I'm done and on my way before them!

-I make sure to laugh out loud when the pump clics to a stop. I love it!

 

bleh, its been dipping past -10°C the last few days and, combined with some 400-series highway driving, snow tires, and not being particularly stingy with heating, i'm getting between mid-5's to upwards of 7 l/100km. even in-town, i am seeing the ICE will come on more frequently even when the battery is charged.

to be honest i'm not stressing over it too much though. during these miserable months i'm prepared to take a hit for a bit of extra comfort, plus i'm sure i'm still doing proportionately better than the gas guzzlers. i can and have gotten 4.0l/100km and better in warmer weather and with more consciencious driving, so i'll just look forward to better days ahead!

 

I'm afraid active shutters aren't on the Prii models because failure of the shutter doors would/could be catastrophic. I hope they do introduce such a system in the future. They should make it fail proof, as if it was to fail, a spring loaded shutter would be stuck open and not closed. Meh, who am I to be thinking such things?

 

I have 6000 kms on the clock now and some days on my trip to work which is 43 kms I get 3.3 l/100. This is made up of some 100kph zones as well. It is starting to get better now as it has more on the clock.
At 100 kph I can get around 4 l/100 using the cruise control on a fairly flat highway. It is a knack to driving to get the best out of the car. The Eco score is a good screen to watch. I have found that using the cruis control on the highway is an easy way to get better highway economy.

 

Agreed. Cruise Control seems to be an anathema to the more devout hypermilers, but used sensibly it works very nicely on this car and it's easy to cancel and resume if there's anything you want to deal with manually before letting cruise take over again.

 

What could I expect to average going 100-115km/hr on the 401 or 407 on a 100km each way commute (Waterloo to Vaughn Ontario)? My Honda civic hybrid averaged about 5.8l/100km except in the winter when its down to 6.5l/100km. My 2006 diesel Jetta got about 5.3l/100km on the same drive. I'm trying to decide between the Prius C and lift back. Has anyone driven both on higher speed highways?

I'm just trying to figure out real numbers not unrealistically high hyper miler numbers. Fully seems to indicate measurably better fuel economy in the c but this might just be city driving . the gap might close on the highway above 100km/hr?

Nexus 7 ? HD

 

I seem to do around 4.5 l/100km give or take doing 110 km/h on cruise control on a flat freeway in fair weather. Hills are a give and take - if there's an elevation difference between your endpoints it will hurt you one way and reward you the other way. I've never owned a liftback but the consensus is that it is better suited to these speeds, however both cars will have noticable hits to mileage the faster you go on freeways.

I've also noticed the c is doing better on Fuelly - there could be lots of reasons for that but if you're driving at speeds not going over about 70-80 km/h for journies of at least 20 minutes you can normally hit the published figures without trying. Drive longer or start throwing in some basic techniques and you'll see the consumption get even better. If people are doing a lot of this kind of driving, it will be helping the Fuelly average.

 

I drove 450km each way recently, hilly and around 0C one way and -10C and windy on the way back. Did not speed, so 100Km/h with some slowing down for trucks and passing at WOT once in a while. Like I said, hilly, Edmonton to Ft.McMurray and averaged 4.9L/100Km. Not bad considering cold, bad roads and wind for 3/4 of the way back. I'm expecting huge gains this summer. City consumption is blowing me away, I've been getting under 4L/100 and its still around 0C these days.

All figures are calculated. My display shows .2 to .3 L/100Km better than actual.

 

I find its really hard to give firm numbers of what to expect because so many factors (wind,temp,hills,speed of traffic) can affect fuel economy. On 400 series highways in Ontario I can get below 5.0 l/100km on some days, and be lucky to break 6 on others. Drop down to 80kmh highways and low 4's become very achieveable.

Ironically the place I have the hardest time getting decent mileage is in the city. Shorter trips, cold temps and Toronto's traffic flow of "fast accelerate and then brake for a stoplight every 50 meters" can result in never dropping below the worst case 15l/100km readout.