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Love the new Prius. Thanks for the review! Also I’m not the only one with 25 shark vacuums! Gotta love the duo-clean versions!
I bought a new 2021 Rav4 hybrid. When I first got it I drove casually in eco mode, not really hypermiling, and I got 52 MPG. I use it primarily for Uber and drive aggressively when I don't have passengers, and I often have a full car of passengers. I average 39.9 MPG. So I would imagine the Prius gets way better gas mileage than you're experiencing in this video. I've heard people getting 72 MPG on the older models.
Shame these cars are going to end up on their roofs thanks to their drivers
Which grade of fuel been used in the test?
You said a tesla is cheaper to operate….. do your math. You can buy two of these for the price of one tesla. And electric car batteries are bad for the environment, must be replaced eventually so horrible resell and they have horrible service issues. Not even close to compare. No fan boy here, just someone who can add it all up. But good video otherwise.
Nah
I'll stick with my 91 CRX SI
Ofcourse its a hybrid the street mpg will be much better then highway
pre-production for how long now? fgs
Prius Prime plug-in hybrid review: https://youtu.be/6oDI5yE5t4I
I love that color
How your gas was reading on this trip ? You forget to talk about it …. I wanna know
Never thought I would ever say this about a Prius, but that is a gorgeous car.
Pretty underwhelming on the mpg front.. Guess i'm keeping my '17 Hyundai Ioniq that gets an easy 55~ on the highway and city for another year.. boring car, but it's so cheap to drive.
I have a manual shift 2017 1.4l turbo Volkswagen Jetta that regularly gets between 40 and 45 MPG on the highway with mindful, but by no means "grandma" accelerator handling while typically going 80 mph. And when I need to accelerate hard from a stop or pass on the highway the car has plenty of power to feel confident especially compared to pretty much any other economy vehicle. I can't get excited for 45 mpg for 3x the price and significant complexity for maintenance.
yikes 46 on the highway going slow. my ioniq hybrid gets 65-70 mpg in those conditions…
I’ve had 3 Prius’ and I don’t think there’s really a break in period. I mean basically you’re driving a computer 😂
What kind of roads your on makes sooo much difference. I drove my last Prius mostly at the coast in North Carolina; flat as a pancake and slow speeds. I got amazing gas mileage (I’ve been tracking my mileage since 2011 using an app).
I bought a new Prius in 2021 and moved inland, where it’s not so flat an also where there’s insane highway driving (think autobahn…I’m often well over 80 mph going with morning traffic).
My mileage went from consistently low 50 mpg to now mid to low 40 mpg in a car that’s supposed to get better mpg according to the sticker (it’s not a Prime, pure Hybrid).
No matter how hard I try to hyper-mile, it’s just impossible with the roads I now drive on.
When I’m back at the coast for a visit, the mpg is fantastic!
Go figure
Great review
I wonder if Toyota is kinda missing the mark here with the Prius?
It’s always been know for it’s super mpg and that seems to be going down.
For sure some updates needed to happen, but how with a plug in is it getting less mpg than a regular Prius?
Great Review btw!!!
Don’t let your silly politics cloud your judgement on the impact Musk has had in this industry. Love him or hate him. Great video but political comments (from either side of the pasture) are a turn off.
Tax Credits? Any idea how long it will be before we know if the Prius will qualify for the $7,500 credit?
Great review! 👌🏽
how many chics you can put in this prius?
Have one on order and I have two in the driveway at the moment. Efficient driving in a Prius means not using cruise control. You want to pump and glide as much as you can. That doesn’t mean speed up and coast but mild on and off the throttle. Don’t be a tool and hold people up.
If there is an elevation gain during your drive, whatever your mileage is below the epa estimate, on your way back, it will be that number above the epa estimate on the reverse trip that includes an elevation drop. Also with those toyota engine platforms and all the rest involved in the enineering, if the temp. outside is below 50, you will see lower electric motor output, and a little more so below about 30 F. That is pretty shocking, seeing as how I had a 2016 Prius II Eco and drove it 45,000 miles averaging 62.5 mpg and I floored it everywhere I went because it could handle it and in a Prius, when you're trying to floor it, it's about as fast as half-assing it in a truck.
I am debating between this and an Ev. I got a new job that will add ~30k to my yearly income with ease. I am debating should I keep my 2008 honda accord coupe which will cost me ~5-6k in gas. The gas prices now is what is making consider getting a new car. It's between a chevy bolt or a ioniq 5. If I was to get an hybrid it would the prius prime. The new job is 50 minute drive away: 90kilometers each way. Any thoughts anyone.
52 is not acceptable, I'm doing 55+ in my 2019 lol…. Best I ever had was right over 70.
As I expected, was driven like it was stolen. This is a Prius not a mustang, max 50-55 mph