Poll: How many miles do you drive your Prius

TonyPSchaefer · Sep 12, 2007

That mileage distribution is pretty normal, statistically speaking, though slightly bimodal.

Martin: the Âº - as in ÂºF - is [alt]+[0186] and I use it all the time.

TonyPSchaefer · Sep 12, 2007

That mileage distribution is pretty normal, statistically speaking, though slightly bimodal.

Martin: the Âº - as in ÂºF - is [alt]+[0186] and I use it all the time.

FireEngineer · Sep 12, 2007

One month shy of 3 years and at 56,000 miles. Daily commute is 37 miles RT. And then there's these darn road trips........

Wayne

FireEngineer · Sep 12, 2007

One month shy of 3 years and at 56,000 miles. Daily commute is 37 miles RT. And then there's these darn road trips........

Wayne

p626808 · Sep 12, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Sep 11 2007, 06:28 PM) [snapback]510861[/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)
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Yes.. I did put it in the poll that way..

Good grief are those guys way off!

Scott

p626808 · Sep 12, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Sep 11 2007, 06:28 PM) [snapback]510861[/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)
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Yes.. I did put it in the poll that way..

Good grief are those guys way off!

Scott

KD6HDX · Sep 12, 2007

At the two year mark in August 07, we had 67K miles on the car.

67K divided by 24 months equals 2,791 miles average per month.

Car runs great. Getting ready to change fluids and replace PCV valve.

68K miles and running on Mobil One and Costco cheap-nice person gas.

KD6HDX · Sep 12, 2007

At the two year mark in August 07, we had 67K miles on the car.

67K divided by 24 months equals 2,791 miles average per month.

Car runs great. Getting ready to change fluids and replace PCV valve.

68K miles and running on Mobil One and Costco cheap-nice person gas.

nerfer · Sep 12, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Sep 12 2007, 08:17 AM) [snapback]511198[/snapback]</div>

That mileage distribution is pretty normal, statistically speaking, though slightly bimodal.

Martin: the Âº - as in ÂºF - is [alt]+[0186] and I use it all the time.
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Yes, it does have a double-hump (I assume that's what bimodal means), and it's been persistant as people have voted. The peak at 10-15K/yr drivers follow I believe the national average, but then we apparently have another bump of long-mileage drivers, probably because the nature of the car appeals to people who commute farther.

For degrees, I just use the tick (') sign, like today it'll reach 65'F (great day for biking!). Faster to type, looks close enough but not as correct, and totally falls apart if I start using it for degrees lat/long, since that's also the mark for minutes of a degree.

nerfer · Sep 12, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Sep 12 2007, 08:17 AM) [snapback]511198[/snapback]</div>

That mileage distribution is pretty normal, statistically speaking, though slightly bimodal.

Martin: the Âº - as in ÂºF - is [alt]+[0186] and I use it all the time.
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Yes, it does have a double-hump (I assume that's what bimodal means), and it's been persistant as people have voted. The peak at 10-15K/yr drivers follow I believe the national average, but then we apparently have another bump of long-mileage drivers, probably because the nature of the car appeals to people who commute farther.

For degrees, I just use the tick (') sign, like today it'll reach 65'F (great day for biking!). Faster to type, looks close enough but not as correct, and totally falls apart if I start using it for degrees lat/long, since that's also the mark for minutes of a degree.

ohershey · Sep 12, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rfred @ Sep 10 2007, 09:25 PM) [snapback]510446[/snapback]</div>

Hold down the alt key and type 0162 on the numeric keypad:

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:huh: :blink:
Directly inputting ASCII codes? Well, I guess you could, but I'd never actually considered doing it... Now I'm wondering if you had that memorized, or had to look it up? On second though, it doesn't actually matter.

Boy, we Prius drivers tend to be a bunch of techno geeks, don't we?

ohershey · Sep 12, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rfred @ Sep 10 2007, 09:25 PM) [snapback]510446[/snapback]</div>

Hold down the alt key and type 0162 on the numeric keypad:

11Â¢/mile[/b]
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:huh: :blink:
Directly inputting ASCII codes? Well, I guess you could, but I'd never actually considered doing it... Now I'm wondering if you had that memorized, or had to look it up? On second though, it doesn't actually matter.

Boy, we Prius drivers tend to be a bunch of techno geeks, don't we?

rufaro · Sep 25, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rfred @ Sep 10 2007, 09:25 PM) [snapback]510446[/snapback]</div>

Hold down the alt key and type 0162 on the numeric keypad:

11Â¢/mile

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad Hatter @ Sep 12 2007, 09:37 AM) [snapback]511366[/snapback]</div>

:huh: :blink:
Directly inputting ASCII codes? Well, I guess you could, but I'd never actually considered doing it... Now I'm wondering if you had that memorized, or had to look it up? On second though, it doesn't actually matter.

Boy, we Prius drivers tend to be a bunch of techno geeks, don't we?

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I do believe it has been noted that we on PC tend more towards the geek than the gear head end of the spectrum. B) There ARE occasional disruptions to this pattern.

And it's not quite so easy to do the ASCII direct input on most laptops--adding the function key into the equation makes it a tad more difficult!

As to the original question, pre-Pri, if I did even 5k/year, it was remarkable. Since I got the Pri (May 10, 2006), as of today, I have just a hair under 27k on it (that's with two cross country roundtrips...never did even one before, and wouldn't have done any since, but it all seemed suddenly POSSIBLE with the GPS--not built-in--laptop w/WiFi, cell phone, etc., etc., etc, without which I couldn't have done it solo, which I did eastbound once and westbound the other time--DH and son did one direction, and DH & I did one other--and PC friends en route were FANTASTIC along the way ...I'm pretty sure that's more than I've driven in total since I got my license in 1976.

If I got the Pri to save gas, I'd have to say I'm a total failure.

sparkyAZ · Sep 27, 2007

I have a 60 mile round trip commute every day (15,600 + miles per year) which is why I bought the Prius, but I love driving it so that makes the trip more tolerable.

rufaro · Oct 5, 2007

Threadkiller here...

Hoping others have something to add...

Danny Hamilton · Apr 14, 2008

Danny Hamilton said: ↑

<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.
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As I've come up on one year since the purchase of my Prius, I've been thinking back to this poll from September and trying to remember what my estimate was and how accurate I was.

I searched through my old posts to find this old thread and, as it turns out, I seem to have underestimated. My actual annual miles at the end of my first year: 33,384

Boo · Apr 14, 2008

2,800 miles in the first year.

I spend more time on PriusChat than I do in my Prius.

KandyRedCoi · Apr 14, 2008

30-40K and yes I am the traveling salesman eace:

priusincc · Apr 14, 2008

I drove 7975 miles the first year; at a cost of 22.6 cents per mile, not including depreciation.:high5:

morpheusx · Apr 14, 2008

1st year = 28,000 miles.

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