Comments on: Hybrid MPG Myths http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/02/hybrid-mpg-myths/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hybrid-mpg-myths The best conservative political news, analysis and opinion articles written by a collection of citizen journalists. Covering a range of important topics in blogs, op-ed, and news posts, these upstanding patriots are bringing back American exceptionalism with every entry.. Sat, 18 May 2013 08:52:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Suzanne http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/02/hybrid-mpg-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Suzanne Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:41:03 +0000 http://conservativedailynews.com/?p=37641#comment-3 I’m just one data point, but I have a 2007 Prius. I pretty consistently get 50-55mpg most of the year (in CA), 45-50mpg in the winter. I do a mixture of city and highway driving and typically drive 65-70mph on the highway. I’m reasonably gentle w/ my accerator, and I do drive w/ an eye to fuel efficiency (the displays make it easy to do that), but I use it when I need to and have no trouble merging, etc. You are correct about hills — most of my driving is pretty flat, and hills can definitely adversely affect my mileage, but even when I am driving hills I don’t think I’ve ever had a tank much under 40mpg. I haven’t really noticed any change in performance over the 5 years I’ve had the car.

To be honest, my husband also has a Prius and usually only gets mileage in the 40′s (he drives considerably faster than I do, w/ a bit of a lead foot). But still, I don’t think it’s as impractical to get good mileage as you make it out to be.

Also, the numbers for the Leaf and Volt are mpg-equivalents — they are assuming you will spend some significant fraction of your driving time in electric-only mode, so that’s how they get those numbers.

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