50 MPG On First Tank!

Congrats, Bum! For a first tank that's great. My first few tanks were probably in the mid- to upper 40s. That's partly because of the cold weather, but also because I'm a slow (hypermiling) learner. Keep practicing and you'll keep pushing it higher.

 

It's not cheating. It's called practice.

 

Nice work. Not sure if I would arbitrarily drive around just to increase MPG ... but to each their own.

Hopefully it will just get better as time goes on.

Not to outdo you, but I just recorded 52.8 MPG for my first tank last week (around 450 miles).

Have fun with your new ride!

 

Howay the Bum! As the summer approaches go for 55 MPG. A couple of trips out to DIA on a tank will probably help your cause. I'm hoping that I can break my best (56.3MPG) this summer (my second with the Prius).

 

I just hit 50 mpg on my first tank too!
I so was psyched I took a picture too. :lol:

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I bought my Prius a few weeks ago. On the first tank I got 47.3 MPG. I was driving the other day and was alarmed when I saw that I had gone 470 miles on the tank. The bar was blinking. When I filled up it took less than 10 gallons of gas ... and, although the display estimated 48 MPG, I did the math and found that I had gotten 49.65 MPG. That was driving in town quite a bit, then a 350 mile round trip on expressways to Minneapolis. What a car!

 

First post here, great group. My last car was a 94 Saturn SL2 and belonged to a like group...large knowlege base! This one too!!

Anyway, my first tank was 48mpg, second, 49.89mpg. Still hovering around upper 40's lower 50's. Once I was getting 54.8mpg on the way home from work this past Wednesday...wow! My ustahave SL2 got around 28-30mpg and I was happy. But now, geez. If I get below 45mpg I'll be mad

BTW, just had the windows tinted, and there's a new clear film out that can go on your windshield. Cuts about 50% of infra red, 99% of UV. Blew my mind... Going to get it done before things really get hot here.

 

I actually did 81mgp on my way to work! But it's mostly going downhill for the first 15 miles -- the last 10 I coasted a lot, and tried to get only yellow or no arrows! But then I took a big hit on the way back -- which is, obviously, mostly uphill...

 

Congratulations.

I went to San Francisco on Monday with three people in the car and lots of luggage. I took I5 North and got 40 miles to a gallon. On the way home I took the 101 and got 48 miles to a gallon.

 

I picked up my Prius on Apr. 1st, on my original tank I filled up after about 300 miles and I was getting just over 54 MPG, but since I was going on vacation I needed to fill up for a trip to Virginia to visit family and averaged 50 MPG all on the interstate. But I felt like an idiot after I got there because I had enough gas to get there on one tank but was down to 1 bar. The next day on vacation it started blinking as I was pulling out of their driveway and it only carried me about 10 of the 15 miles I needed to get to the closest gas station, I think it ran out at about 530 ish. Called my mother in law she brought me can of gas with less then a gallon in it, got to the gas station and was only able to squeeze 9.9 gallons in it. WOW. But it still didn't change the fact that I made myself look like an idiot touting a hybrid to a Diehard Ford Country family.