3 years of Prius ownership

[BailOut]

Nice one, Auston.

Rather than compare with my last car's MPG *shudder* I'll just compare with the rest of the Yaris fleet. According to posts on YarisWorld and on the EPA's site our fleet average is at 32.4 MPG. My LMPG is 47.7 as of today and I drove about 17,000 miles last year.

17000 / 32.4 = 524.7 gallons
17000 / 47.7 = 356.4 gallons

524.7 - 356.4 = 168.3 gallons saved

168.3 x $3.20 = $538.56 saved last year


That's 2 free car payments on my little econobox each year.

[Right Lane Cruiser]

My numbers don't look quite so impressive but they are useful anyway.

Looking back through the logs, I started out with a better than typical average of about 32mpg. Since starting hypermiling in 04/2007, I've logged 12,361mi (remember I've been driving the Insight for 3mo now) and should have used about 386.3g to do so.

Counting from my recorded fills I actually used around 270.6g.

386.3g - 270.6g = 115.7g

115.7 * 3.20 = ~$370 saved.

If we compare instead to the EPA ratings of 29mpg, the savings jump to ~$498

That's a lot of fuel, folks!!

For the Insight the numbers are a lot smaller when comparing to the EPA... $34.23 saved. An extra tank over 3mo time?

Just for kicks, the Elantra's total mileage is 97537.5mi and I've used 2863.92g over that distance. Using EPA (29mpg) I should have used 3363.4g. A net savings of 499.44g or just over 33 tanks of gas. As you can see, I've saved nearly 8 tanks of fuel in just the last year alone. Hypermiling makes a big difference!!

[mparrish]

Michael,

You forgot to include the cost of only being able to drive it an additional 34k miles, before she is hauled off for good to be shredded and scattered all over the town of Sudbury, Ont.

[Skwyre7]

Originally Posted by mparrish

Michael,

You forgot to include the cost of only being able to drive it an additional 34k miles, before she is hauled off for good to be shredded and scattered all over the town of Sudbury, Ont.

I knew I should have bought an H2 instead. I really need a vehicle that can go 369,000 miles.

[pyccku]

This is my first post, so hi everyone!

We bought our 2007 Prius in May 2007. I'm just shy of 17K. We traded in a Sienna on it, which got 20 mpg on a good day.

I've calculated that over the year we've saved about $1250 in fuel costs. Plus, I have a car that I love! The last car that I really cared about was a Tercel, bought back in 1997 or so.

So far, no maintenance costs as the oil changes have all been free and I've had no other issues with the car.

The mpg keeps going up, I've been at about 53-55 mpg for the past few tanks. With summer coming I'll have to start using the a/c more, but I still anticipate staying above 50 mpg.

We went shopping for Prius #2 this weekend, they didn't have any so we ended up with an xB. The mpg estimates for all of the cars we looked at (Corolla, xB, Matrix) somehow didn't look all that impressive now that I'm used to the Prius!