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Created August 31, 2005, at 9:58 pm by Anonymous
can someone tell me how far can you drive these cars? How fast can you drive them?
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Created August 31, 2005, at 9:58 pm by Anonymous
can someone tell me how far can you drive these cars? How fast can you drive them?
6 years ago
Many people are getting in excess of 900 miles from a tank in the prius. This is good mpg driving, but it is not difficult to acheive at least 850. In terms of speed my tongue in cheek answer is that like any car they can go as fast as the speed limit. In all seriousness they have a very reasonable amount of power, especially from a standstill, electric motors blow gas engines out of the water on torque. eg. imagine trying to start a manual car from the lights in 5th gear!! this is the sort odf torque electric motors typically get.
6 years ago
Honda Civic Hybrids have a 13-gallon tank and can easily get 45-50 MPG - do the math. I've gone 500 miles without refilling mine, but what's the point?
See my blog for June 1: 80 MPH cruise for hours - no problem at all.
6 years ago
In my Escape Hybrid, I just took a trip out West through SD, WY, MT, ND and back to MN. On a day when headwinds were 25 mph, and I was driving 75 mph, I got 28 mpg and a maximum range of 400 miles. In the mountains, I got 38 (!!) mpg. Sure, going UP was a lot of work, but going DOWN, I often coasted for 17 miles at a time, with the engine kicking on only when my coasting speed topped 30 mph. I was a little miffed to get a stiff easterly headwind on the drive back -- usually I get a nice west-wind assist across ND and SD. Overall mileage for the trip was 28+, and range varied between 350 and 500+. The worst hits to mileage were long, steep, rolling hills on the highways of MT and western ND. With the headwind and going ~70, mileage there was only 26. Eh well, better than anything I ever got with my V6 gas-only Escape.
6 years ago
Sonic - what do you mean by "going UP was a lot of work"? Do you mean the car lost power or were you still able to maintain speed?
Thanks
6 years ago
"Honda Civic Hybrids have a 13-gallon tank"
Actually it is 11.9 gallons according to the owner's manual and specs on this website.
6 years ago
"Fuel Tank Capacity: 13.2 gallons" - my 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid owner's manual
"The 13.2-gallon gas tank gives the Civic Hybrid an impressive 600+ mile range between fill-ups." - http://www.newspress.com/nash03/03HondaCivicHybrid.html
"Fuel Tank Capacity: 13 gal." - http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/s/l/slg255/honda.htm
(Honda Civic Hybrid) "Gas tank 13.2 gal." - http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/04/hybrid/source/4.htm?campaign_id=spr_yahoo_hybrids05
6 years ago
Sorry.
Well unless Tony D is going to buy a 2003 HCH, it's 11.9 on a 2005 model.
http://www.hybridcars.com/civic_specs.html
6 years ago
Weird. Why would they decrease the size of the gas tank?
6 years ago
I just did a trip from Washington D.C. to the hills of West Virginia and back in a Prius 2005, on a single tank of gas. On the way up I got about 42 mpg and way back nearly 52 mpg. Prius handled the hills quite well, no problem at all.
6 years ago
Funny - my 2005 has a 13.2 gallon tank.
6 years ago
Wow that is weird.
My 2005 HCH last filled up 11.3 gal which nearly overflowed the tank with one bar left on the gas gauge. There are 20 bars on the gauge so one bar does roughly represent .6 gal on a 11.9 gal tank.
Anyone know why they changed the tank size? I prefer a bigger a tank.
6 years ago
I did a little research. The ULEV model is 13.2 g. The AT- PZEV is 11.9 g. I have no idea what the difference is exactly except it's something to do with emissions standards.
6 years ago
I've jammed as much as 14.8 gallons in my U-LEV.
6 years ago
If my Honda Civic Hybrid has a gas tank the size of those mentioned here, then the gas stations are routinely ripping me off with mis-calibrated pumps. I routinely pay for 14 gallons or a bit more, but a couple of weeks ago at an ARCO station in the Phoenix area, I bought 15.5 gallons! What is going on here?
6 years ago
Oh, I forgot to say it's a 2003.
6 years ago
Lee, I would write ARCO and the Better Business Bureau and the TV stations and the newspapers ("Action Line" in most places) and the mayor/City Hall with something like this. It's not bad enough they're ripping us off on gas prices, but when the pump says it put 15.5 gallons in a 13.2 gallon tank something's seriously wrong!
6 years ago
"It's not bad enough they're ripping us off on gas prices, but when the pump says it put 15.5 gallons in a 13.2 gallon tank something's seriously wrong!"
Not necessarily. Volume of fuel pumped is typically corrected to 15 degrees C. Gasoline in particular is subject to volume changes with temperature. On the other hand the fuel tank volume is constant! Therefore actual volume pumped might be 13.2 gallons, but corrected volume would be 15.5. It's the only way to ensure that you get an accurate amount of "energy" when you refuel.
At higher temperatures, the same amount of gasoline will occupy a larger volume, and therefore contain less energy per unit of actual volume. Correcting to 15C ensures that you are NOT getting cheated, even though you think you are because the pump says you put in more than you think your car can hold.
It's one additional variable to take into account when calculating fuel economy and why an average over many tanks is needed to accurately establish fuel economy.
Mike G.
6 years ago
Also forgot to add, fuel tank capacity is nominal, and is intended to be roughly the capacity after the average automatic shutoff of the delivery pump.
It's intended to allow a headspace for expansion of the gasoline if, for example, you park the car in the hot sun after filling up.
If you nurse it in, in fact, fill it right up to the brim, you get that headspace, plus the filler pipe volume, which will be well above the published fuel tank capacity for your car, and in fact can be as much as 10 liters (over 2 gallons).
But you are doing no favour to emissions if you overfill. Hydrocarbon emissions typically are a part of smog, and filling the tank so high can cause raw fuel to spill over into the charcoal hydrocarbon fume trap, overwhelming it and causing release of hydrocarbon emissions to the atmosphere.
We diesel owners are luckier, diesel doesn't expand nearly as much and we can fill up the headspace if we drive 10 miles or so immediately afterwards. On my Jetta that gives me an extra 200 km of tank range!
Mike G.
6 years ago
I had the same thing happen to me. I pumped 15 gallons into the tank of my 2003 HCH. It was great, I was able to drive even further between fill ups. I wonder what the heck happened that time to be able to put the extra gallons of gas in. It only happened once. I tried shaking the car to see if I could get more in but that didn't work. I'll tell tell you what did work. I put acetone in the tank I went from 45 to 55 mpg.
6 years ago
I don't know how people could possibly drive 900+ miles in a Prius. If that's true, I'm envious. But I consistantly get about 850 kilometers per tank in my 2004. The best distance I've been able to drive was from Jasper, Alberta to Vancouver, British Columbia up and down mountain passes in the winter on one tank of gas. The trip was just shy of about 900kms.
As for speed, I typically drive at about +/- 5km/hr of the posted speed limit. I've pushed it out on the highway to see how fast it would go, and had no trouble get up to about 155km/hr which is a little over 90mph. It didn't even take much effort to get up to that speed.
6 years ago
I've had mine up to 100mph, although I typically drive within 10mph of the speed limit (on highways). I'm often slightly over on back roads as I like to gain speed going down hills :)
As far as how far they go - Why does anyone care about this? They'll go as far as any other normal vehicle would go on a single tank of gas. Often further. I see far too many posts about people running out of gas in hybrids. I fill it up the same way I filled up my Jeep. When the gas tank is around 1/4 full, I fill it. Why wait?
The most miles I've put on at any single time were about 400 and I average 50mpg.
6 years ago
how does someone get 900 miles from a tank of gas in a Prius?! That doesn't seem at all possible. That almost 1500km. I have a 2004, and the best I've EVER done is 940kms, which is slightly less than 600 mi. Who gets 900miles on a tank? Are these particular cars modified? It seems impossible to me that you can go much more than 600 miles in a Prius...
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