On Nov 23, 2006, at 6:21 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > Hi Godfrey! How is the Prius doing with the coal consumption? What? > Hib-what? How do you spell that?
I'm not sure what you meant by "coal consumption" or "Hib-what" in the questions above. On my west to east journey from Sunnyvale, California to Yonkers, New York, I drove 3,165 miles. The Prius has performed flawlessly throughout. It is quiet, powerful enough for good performance in any circumstances I've encountered, handles stably and surely. I have filled the fuel tank 8 times so far, at about 365 miles on the tankful with a couple of pips left on the fuel capacity gauge, with an average of 8.4 US gallons per fill up (total tank capacity from dry is 10.9 US gallons). The fuel economy right now calculates to a cumulative average of 44.4 miles per US gallon. Total cost for this traveling has been ~US$160 worth of regular grade no-lead gasoline/ petrol. Considering that most of those 3100+ miles were spent at cruising speeds of 70 to 85 miles per hour, I consider this pretty darn good performance. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
