Poll: How many miles do you drive your Prius

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by nerfer, Sep 10, 2007.

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How many miles do you drive your Prius

  1. <5,000 miles/year

    2 vote(s)
    2.3%

  2. 5,001 - 7,500

    3 vote(s)
    3.4%

  3. 7,500 - 10,000

    7 vote(s)
    8.0%

  4. 10,000 - 15,000

    19 vote(s)
    21.6%

  5. 15,000 - 20,000

    17 vote(s)
    19.3%

  6. 20,000 - 30,000

    25 vote(s)
    28.4%

  7. 30,000 - 40,000

    8 vote(s)
    9.1%

  8. >40,000

    7 vote(s)
    8.0%
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  1. Stev0

    Stev0 Honorary Hong Kong Cavalier

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    I hit 10,000 miles the same week as my one-year anniversary.
     
    #21 Stev0, Sep 11, 2007
  2. Godiva

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Martin Gundel @ Sep 10 2007, 09:53 PM) [snapback]510404[/snapback]</div>

    Mine is option-$. ¢

    Option-# gives me british pounds. £
     
    #22 Godiva, Sep 11, 2007
  3. DaveinOlyWA

    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    well i will be celebrating one year in a few days at just over 15,000 miles
     
    #23 DaveinOlyWA, Sep 11, 2007
  4. nerfer

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lowlander @ Sep 10 2007, 06:11 PM) [snapback]510306[/snapback]</div>
    Doh! :blink: I knew I forgot something. Generally I'm pretty open to the metric system (as I tell my minister father - if God wanted us to use the metric system, He would've given us ten fingers and ten toes).

    I hope you were able to multiply your kilometers by 0.6 and help us out anyway :)
     
    #24 nerfer, Sep 11, 2007
  5. Danny Hamilton

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    After 144 days of owning a Prius I'm at 13,832 miles. If the average miles per day continued, I'd have just over 35,000 after 1 year.

    However, I drive an extra 3800 miles or so during May-Aug. that I don't drive the rest of the year, so I suspect I should have about 31200 per year.
     
    #25 Danny Hamilton, Sep 11, 2007
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    Okay, trying to do the math here....
    Got the car on May 11th, and have so far put 7800 miles on it..
    That's 4 months, so:
    7800
    x 3 (because 3 x 4 = 12, in case you are wondering)
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    23400 miles

    That isn't bad... I was thinking that I'd put over 30,000 on in a year. Of course, that may change, as my employment may be changing in the near future, and I could be doubling my commute, or losing it altogether, depending upon what happens.
     
    #26 Rae Vynn, Sep 11, 2007
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    100 a day 5 days a week. Plus an additional 1200 for a trip to Iowa and now 1600+ for a trip to PA. Currently at 13800 since April 9th.
     
    #27 acdii, Sep 11, 2007
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    I do about 43K a year.

    118K total and growing..

    scott
     
    #28 p626808, Sep 11, 2007
  9. DaveinOlyWA

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    danny

    unable to reply directly to your post for some reason. but you are using that 3800 miles in your daily calculation for your yearly projection

    u need to subtract that then get a daily average for a yearly projection that would leave 69 milees a day or about 25,000 a year
     
    #29 DaveinOlyWA, Sep 11, 2007
  10. Danny Hamilton

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveinOlyWA @ Sep 11 2007, 01:07 PM) [snapback]510698[/snapback]</div>
    Hm, you're right. That was a pretty silly mistake. Of course, once you compute the 25.4K from the typical daily average, you then have to add the 3800 back in to the total, so the predicted annual total is about 29,200. That's about 2000 less than I originally estimated (an error of about 6.8%?). It'll be interesting to see next April how close this estimate is.
     
    #30 Danny Hamilton, Sep 11, 2007
  11. ohershey

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    Pushing 110K - looks like it's time for my first brake job. :D
     
    #31 ohershey, Sep 11, 2007
  12. nerfer

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(p626808 @ Sep 11 2007, 12:59 PM) [snapback]510691[/snapback]</div>
    You're the ?winner? so far. Only one in the over-40 category (assuming you answered the poll the same as your post).

    As we're approaching 100 respondents, we're starting to see a decent bell curve, looks to be centered around 16,000 miles/year (26,000 km/year), which is more than I expected. A small sampling of cars-for-sale implies an average closer to 12,500 miles/year (but I don't know if those were bought at the beginning or end of the model year, and how long they sat for prep, etc.).

    Part of the reason for doing this (and I didn't want to state it up front, in order to not skew the results) is that a cornerstone of CNW Marketing's claim for energy cost of the Prius is that it will only be driven on average 109,000 miles in its lifetime. This is based on their research showing the average Prius driver puts on about 7,000 miles/year. In this survey, only about 11% fall into that category, which surprisingly is a little less than those that drive 30K-40K/year. Mind you, I'm not condoning excessive driving, but I think the Prius is attractive to people who already are putting a lot of miles on the road, and really need the most efficient and practical car to do so.

    So either we're not average, or CNW is full of hot air, I'll leave the conclusion up to you. B)
     
    #32 nerfer, Sep 11, 2007
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Sep 11 2007, 03:28 PM) [snapback]510861[/snapback]</div>
    Its pretty obvious that CNW picked their assumptions and data to support the argument they wanted to make.

    It would be interesting to know how many privately owned H2(s) have made it to 300K miles (I believe CNW est life was ~350k). I bet its not many.

    The Prius was est at 109k; there are a bunch of taxis way past that and Jesse's Prius is close to 320k.
     
    #33 dogfriend, Sep 11, 2007
  14. douprius

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    New Prius owner..............Plan to travel 12 to 15k per year.
     
    #34 douprius, Sep 11, 2007
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    Four days short of the third anniversary of taking possession of my car the odometer is reading 35,829.
     
    #35 IsrAmeriPrius, Sep 12, 2007
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    Four days short of the third anniversary of taking possession of my car the odometer is reading 35,829.
     
    #36 IsrAmeriPrius, Sep 12, 2007
  17. nerfer

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    one last shameless pump: this has been a pretty good response, but I'd like to get over 100 responses (sitting at 99 now), so I'll see if the late-night audience has anything to say about this.
     
    #37 nerfer, Sep 12, 2007
  18. nerfer

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    one last shameless pump: this has been a pretty good response, but I'd like to get over 100 responses (sitting at 99 now), so I'll see if the late-night audience has anything to say about this.
     
    #38 nerfer, Sep 12, 2007
  19. mgundel

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rfred @ Sep 11 2007, 12:25 AM) [snapback]510446[/snapback]</div>

    Thanks, I should have had enough ¢ to find that :huh:
     
    #39 mgundel, Sep 12, 2007
  20. mgundel

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rfred @ Sep 11 2007, 12:25 AM) [snapback]510446[/snapback]</div>

    Thanks, I should have had enough ¢ to find that :huh:
     
    #40 mgundel, Sep 12, 2007
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