But SkooterG, have you thought about maybe it's the air resistance? YMMV.
Heck a Golf TDI will do better than that and the dust-to-dust cost has less cost to the environment.if anyone is the least bit interested, is around 45 mpgs and my 12 gallon fuel tank range ends uprds of 550 miles.
Fred you have once again shown me the error of my ways. If only I could have talked to you first. I got dumped by the princess, I married the monster and I have not had any fun at all. I never do anything right.I mean once you kill all the monsters and rescue the princess it just isn't fun anymore.
only 60? in 8 serconds? that's an eternity. how about 0-100-0 in that time? that would seem to be a minimun any bar should be set to.Maybe so, but my Camry hybrid will make 60 in a little over 8 seconds, which is plenty fast enough for me. Prius isn't the only hybrid out there.
Gary
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The Energi will also do way better than that, if it's driven the way it was intended. I obviously don't do that. That 45mpg was running 100 mile round trips, so the EV contribution is small. IOW that 45 mpg is what you get running in "hybrid mode".Heck a Golf TDI will do better than that and the dust-to-dust cost has less cost to the environment.if anyone is the least bit interested, is around 45 mpgs and my 12 gallon fuel tank range ends uprds of 550 miles.
update: rats! already noted before (except for the hidden, high environmental costs of hybrids.
only 60? in 8 serconds? that's an eternity. how about 0-100-0 in that time? that would seem to be a minimun any bar should be set to.Maybe so, but my Camry hybrid will make 60 in a little over 8 seconds, which is plenty fast enough for me. Prius isn't the only hybrid out there.
Gary
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shucks, i wasn't even talking about MPG any more when i started talking about minimum acceptable performance. there are reasons i don't (and won't) have a hybrid. dust-to-dust of battery tech is only one of those reasons.The Energi will also do way better than that, if it's driven the way it was intended. I obviously don't do that. That 45mpg was running 100 mile round trips, so the EV contribution is small. IOW that 45 mpg is what you get running in "hybrid mode".Heck a Golf TDI will do better than that and the dust-to-dust cost has less cost to the environment.if anyone is the least bit interested, is around 45 mpgs and my 12 gallon fuel tank range ends uprds of 550 miles.
update: rats! already noted before (except for the hidden, high environmental costs of hybrids.
The Golf TDi is mpg rated as 30/41 city/hwy. The Energi (and many other hybrids) are rated nearly equally as high in city driving as on highway when running in the (default) hybrid mode. When they are running in EV mode the gas mileage is infinite, so depending on your driving patterns it would be pretty easy to exceed 100mpg.
only 60? in 8 serconds? that's an eternity. how about 0-100-0 in that time? that would seem to be a minimun any bar should be set to.Maybe so, but my Camry hybrid will make 60 in a little over 8 seconds, which is plenty fast enough for me. Prius isn't the only hybrid out there.
Gary
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The Golf TDi you spoke of earlier also has a 0-60 of ~8 seconds. (7.9 to be exact). It only makes 140 horsepower, so even though it is feather light it still takes time to get to speed. Which just goes to show, there is no free lunch.
shucks, i wasn't even talking about MPG any more when i started talking about minimum acceptable performance. there are reasons i don't (and won't) have a hybrid. dust-to-dust of battery tech is only one of those reasons.
When I saw this thread title it had 'Train Wreck' written all over it. I tried to resist reading it, I felt like a bird being hypnotized by a snake. My resolve finally crumbled and I read it from page 1 to the end. I hate it when that happens...Curiously, a cross wind has almost as much effect on these gauges and my mpg as a headwind.
Hey Bounce.only 60? in 8 serconds? that's an eternity. how about 0-100-0 in that time? that would seem to be a minimun any bar should be set to.Maybe so, but my Camry hybrid will make 60 in a little over 8 seconds, which is plenty fast enough for me. Prius isn't the only hybrid out there.
Gary
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