I recently took a trip to another town about 60 odd miles away and was fascinated by how high my final average MPG was. This was a round trip and only charged before I left. 130 total miles: 45 miles of 70 mph 50 miles of 60 mph 30 miles of 45 mph (with stoplights) 5 miles of 30 mph (with stoplights) I would guess my moving average would be right around 60 mph, possibly a little bit higher.
You used 1.76 gallons (130 miles / 74 MPG) on the entire trip. 100 miles are on HV mode so you got 57 MPG on gas. What's interesting is, you pulled off 29 EV miles with one charge. It takes synergy to get excellent efficiency from both onboard fuels. Incredible from a 5 seater midsize plugin with the biggest cargo space on the market.
that's incredible! when i go to visit my father on thursday's, it's 90 miles round trip. mostly 30-40 mph and 20 miles at 50-60. one charge and i only get 90 mpg. well done!
Thanks guys! And it's so fun to do a trip like this with the PiP since it's just such a wonderful toolbox for the hypermiler. fwiw when I used to do this trip with my old regular Prius (gen 3) upper 50's are doable.
Nice trip! Glade to see you had a great trip! I just got back from my trip going up to MSP airport. Picked up my niece, then up to northern Minnesota. About 253 miles up, read out said 64 mpg. Return trip was 250 miles, read out said 63 MPG. Each leg was about 1/2 65 MPH and 1/2 75 MPH. Very little in town maybe 20 miles total. One charge of EV when I left, no other charge. I didn't keep such nice details about my trip as you did. Nice job!
I believe the 29 EV is due to the wonderful regeneration/storage capability of the PiP. My long mountain trips with one starting charge have been in the 60 to 66 mpg range for gas consumption. The original charge represents about 0.1 gallon when calculating mpg-e a very small consumption change for long trips.
Because he went 130 miles with 1.757 gallon of gas. PiP doesn't show gallons in decimals. It'll roll to 2 gallon once you reach there.
