My first prius

yippie! i finally own a genI prius. we bought one on ebay, test drove it to be sure we liked it, and we're so happy. thanks for all the advice we've gotten while we were making our decision. i have so many questions and statements about my 7 hr road trip home i could create my own blog, but i think i'll drop them to you a few at at time . maybe i'll just send bob wilson the longest pm in prius chat history. i guess i'll put a couple of my observations here and see if you guys share them.

the car got incredible gas mileage on the first tank. hand doing the math i got 55.16mpg. that was averaging a good 75 mph. i wonder how much of this was the "bladder" effect. 218.8 miles on 3.965 gallons (going on memory)((lol, never mind just confirmed it)) we'll see how it continues as the tanks start to unfold. how do i get a link in my signature that shows my rolling average?

the energy display on the way home was blowing my mind. i finally had to switch to radio display and let the car do its thing. whew! sometimes i would be climbing a hill and the car would be charging the battery. sometimes i'd ease off the gas and it would start using the battery. it just made almost do logic at all, except at obvious times. if i did a burst of half throttle or more, of course it drained on the battery, like it should. use that stored energy! and if i let off to coast, it choked the ice, and started regen. i thought it was soo cool that even at 70 or so, i could feather the throttle to go from regen, to neutral coasting, to electric only with engine choked (turning but getting no gas). but do you think there should be reason for concern that it almost always kept the battery full. it stayed all the way at the top just below the + and - signs. just once on the trip it wouldn't regen cause the battery was too full. my old hch did that when the battery was full so i knew it was normal though. shouldn't it keep the battery at 80% so there is plenty of power for reserve, yet room for more regen?

that's all i have time for now. my wife wants to get it new wheels but i'll search that. i'm betting there are already a dozen posts on it. do they all corrode like ours is, and the dealer had a few others there that looked all chewed up, like chemicals were put on it or something?

thanks again for your guidance along the way.
jason