Okay, so it was only 10 miles, downhill from Copper Mtn to Dillon, but it sure was fun to watch the screen!!!! Traveled from Dallas to Dillon, Colorado - about 900 miles each way. Car loaded with hubby, two kids and gear. Averaged 46.8 going and about 48 coming home. (Was a lot better until we hit flat Texas). Car didn't like the mountains, but she did great on the downhill! Jennifer
Hahaha I do that sometimes coming home from wok in Auburn which is uphill from Lincoln. I try my best to keep the engine off while taking the corners pretty hard (very curvy road) and coming down the hill. I usually make the less than 20 mile trip at about 90-99mpg according the MFD. Then I hit the flat areas and it drops... It was fun while it lasted.
90 MPG is doable even on level ground provided you P&G between 30 and 42 MPH. World record on the Prius is somewhere around 110 MPG. Record on Insight is 184 MPG driven cross country.
Aye, I've done 3 five-minute segments of P&G and had the bars maxed at 99mpg. That just isn't doable in the city though. I believe the Prius record is now at 116mpg? Was 112mpg. The girl from Japan keeps beaking it.
oh to only have such a flat without stop lights surface to drive on from and to work so i could break the record ;-) i remember the pics from that japanese girl and frankly, i have never seen such a flat well paved road in my life! Not a stop light in a single picture. also, if you only drive the car in such a routine and nothing else... it makes her stats look rather meaningless to me. i said to me. others might be impressed but not I. she probably fails to mention that she uses her significant other's car for all other travel purposes which gets 30 MPG ;-)
I have a big, 14% 1/2 mile hill to go down on my 15 mile trip to work, and i see maybe 55mpg, one way, but then I have to go back up the hill to get home! I try different routs to get higher milage. Hmmm I wonder if it's better to drive 20 minutes and get 49-50mpg or 30 minutes and get 53mpg? Either way I've got that hill. At the bottom all my bars are green and i can travel quite a ways on battery only.
Flat, well paved roads. Yeh. I'm sure I lose at least two to five mpg just due to rough roads. I keep thinking I'm having tire problems, but then I get to a short smooth stretch so I know better. There's nowhere around here that could be described as flat for more than a 100 yards at a time. Dave M.
