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The Toyota Prius Delivers 93 MPG, Setting Guinness World Record
Forbes ^ | 09/13/2024 | Karl Brauer

Posted on 09/13/2024 8:53:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Would you be impressed by a car that gets 93 mpg? If the answer is yes, then you’re going to be impressed by the current Toyota Prius. While the current Prius may be EPA-rated for a “lowly” 57 mpg, it just completed a cross-country drive, from Los Angeles’ City Hall to New York’s City Hall, while averaging 93.1 MPG. That’s a 3,200-mile trip, so unlike a lot of fuel efficiency tests that take place over a few dozen or a few hundred miles, this one took place between two of America’s biggest cites, one on each coast . And yes, that’s a new fuel-efficiency world record, certified by Guinness.

How does a Toyota Prius nearly double its certified fuel efficiency? The single biggest factor is how it’s driven, or in this case, who is doing the driving. This hyper-efficient Prius owes its record-setting run to a gentleman named Wayne Gerdes, who publishes a website called CleanMPG.com and has a long history of setting efficiency records.

The last time Wayne drove across the country, in a Kia Niro hybrid in 2016, he achieved a then-record 76.6 MPG. Wayne has also set records for driving a Volkswagen Passat TDI through all 48 contiguous states while averaging 68 MPG.

So Wayne Gerdes likes to break automotive efficiency records. And this time he chose the current Toyota Prius, which has already won a long list of accolades, including my personal assessment as the best car you can buy today, at least if you’re looking for the best combination of value, reliability, performance, safety, styling, and yes, fuel efficiency. It didn’t surprise me to see Wayne pair up with the current Prius to break another record. Still, getting an average of 93 mpg out of the car while crossing the U.S. is truly impressive.

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TOPICS: Science; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: automotive; ecars; ev; hybrid; prius; toyota
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Wayne Gerdes has a talent for hypermiling and has set several world records | Toyota Motor Sales
1 posted on 09/13/2024 8:53:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Still a cuck mobile that’s name sounds like a VD.


2 posted on 09/13/2024 9:01:42 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: SeekAndFind

45 mph in the hammer lane with his right turn signal on.


3 posted on 09/13/2024 9:02:49 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: chuckb87
Nowhere do I see an average miles per HOUR.

What was his average speed?

4 posted on 09/13/2024 9:05:55 PM PDT by knarf
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To: SeekAndFind

3,200 miles at 50 mph is 64 hours...with windows rolled up and no AC (maybe not even the ventilation fan). No thanks.

We just did 1,100 miles through the Canadian Rockies in my 2014 Ford Expedition with the Triton 5.4L V8 and got 18.2 mpg average. I take it real easy, anticipate stops up ahead, slow acceleration and drive like there’s an egg between my boot and the gas pedal. I was very happy to get that mileage in a ten year old, big, comfortable car with 103k on the clock.


5 posted on 09/13/2024 9:06:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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To: SeekAndFind

How gig is the tank?


6 posted on 09/13/2024 9:07:23 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

“ The single biggest factor is how it’s driven”

Ok. How is it driven?


7 posted on 09/13/2024 9:09:20 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course the way they do this is by removing all ‘extra’ weight. That includes air bags, window motors, spare tire, seats, even the cup holder, resulting in a very non-DOT approved ‘shell’ around a bare minimum frame. Also, the test is performed during the day so no power is used for headlights, and everything with mass excluding the driver is carried in auxiliary vehicles accompanying the ‘test’.


8 posted on 09/13/2024 9:11:28 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Deaf Smith

How fast did he drive on the mostly interstates he traveled on? Wind resistance drag is the square of the velocity. For example driving 50 mph verses 70 mph the wind drag is 98% greater. Some interstates will let us drive 80 mph. The wind drag is then 256% greater.

A real test is average driving conditions of stop and go and some interstate travel and country roads. On this test the Prius is far less but it is still outstanding in its gas mileage. It is a good car.


9 posted on 09/13/2024 9:15:24 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder how many traffic jams he calls.


10 posted on 09/13/2024 9:16:12 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

With my Ram 1500 I average 18.5 miles per gallon which is about half stop and go and the other half open road. On the interstate I get 24 mpg at 70 mph. That Prius beats the hell out of this. That Prius can not haul several thousands pounds in a trailer behind it.

Both are fine vehicles for their designed use. My truck is a work truck thus 395 horses V8. The Prius is just for moving people.


11 posted on 09/13/2024 9:23:05 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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Experiment; it could maintain highway speeds with the same horsepower as a lawn tractor.

Volkswagen’s 300 MPG Car
September 17, 2014
Giselle Weiss
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2014/09/17/volkswagen-fuel-efficiency


12 posted on 09/13/2024 9:36:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: knarf

That’s what needed for more context.


13 posted on 09/13/2024 9:45:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cpdiii

That’s damn good mileage for that truck.

My Expedition gets 15.4 mixed town and highway. The best I’ve gotten was the 18.2 on our ten day trip, but that included a lot of high-elevation mountain driving up to 6,650 feet at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park. We didn’t go below 4,200 feet for a week.


14 posted on 09/13/2024 9:55:08 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s taken many decades to get production ICE cars extremely efficient and very clean burning, and of course now the leftist mental cases want you to give all that up for an EV.


15 posted on 09/13/2024 10:01:38 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SeekAndFind

And, does not spontaneously burst into flame like those oversized electric golf carts.


16 posted on 09/13/2024 10:10:12 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: ifinnegan

Low rpm, highest gear - probably around 45.. keep speed as steady as possible


17 posted on 09/13/2024 10:57:48 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: SeekAndFind
"While the current Prius may be EPA-rated for a “lowly” 57 mpg, it just completed a cross-country drive, from Los Angeles’ City Hall to New York’s City Hall, while averaging 93.1 MPG"

Them's strong westerlies!
18 posted on 09/13/2024 11:08:01 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Improve your mileage through rmectensive use of drafting.

19 posted on 09/13/2024 11:12:18 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: KarlInOhio

rmectensive -> extensive


20 posted on 09/13/2024 11:13:05 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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