Wayne Gerdes has a talent for hypermiling and has set several world records | Toyota Motor Sales
Still a cuck mobile that’s name sounds like a VD.
45 mph in the hammer lane with his right turn signal on.
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.
How gig is the tank?
“ The single biggest factor is how it’s driven”
Ok. How is it driven?
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’.
I wonder how many traffic jams he calls.
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.
And, does not spontaneously burst into flame like those oversized electric golf carts.
Improve your mileage through rmectensive use of drafting.
I rented a Toyota hybrid Sienna minivan on vacation last year. Plenty of power and averaged 36MPG.
My 1993 Honda XR250L dual sport motorcycle doesn’t get that much per gallon and it only weighs 440# with me on it. However, I’d never buy an hybrid or all-electric car because I don’t want to have anything to do with that action...”Look at me, I’m saving the planet!”
Stick a diesel in the Prius and you’ll be talking over 120 MPG. Sad that the Leftists never permitted that.
The 2023 Prius I had on a 6 month lease would return 80+mpg in grid lock traffic over 16 mile distances. I saw as high as 90mpg on a 9 mile trip in bumper to bumper grid lock in Houston, and in the 80s in New Orleans and DFW over 10 to 20 mile trips. Even at 85mph on the motorway continuous it would return 56 or so. Impressive car, I routinely used it as a mobile worksite “idling” for hours with the AC ripping. I italicized idling because it doesn’t actually idle it runs the AC and inverters off the battery pack till it hits 30% discharge or what you set it at in the advanced settings then the engine comes on not at idle but at 3000 ish rpm and charges the pack back to 100% or 80% again it’s a settong. For max life 90/30 is the sweet spot. Even parked for hours it was only using 0.5 gph to run two laptops a 27” LCD and the AC set to 70 in South or East Texas heat. My normal ICE car of similar size would use 1.6 gph at idle with the AC on and similar computer loads. Toyota has mastered the hybrid it is seamless to the driver you stomp on the pedal and it just accelerates away smoothly. Because the AC unit is driven by high voltage DC and not the motor it doesn’t kick off and on like an ICE car with stop start at stop lights or bumper to bumper grid lock conditions.
I want a Toyota Camry plug in when they have one with the California compliant 100 mile plug in range that will be the peak of the hybrid system. BYD already has a Camry sized plug in with well over a 100 mile plug in range and 1300+ miles on the fuel tank for a combined world record 1400+ mile total range it also gets 108 mpg in city traffic under real world driving. A reporter and test driver took one out in a major Chinese city and did a 100+ km test drive in normal afternoon driving conditions it returned the US gallon equivalent of 108 mpg over that long of a test drive impressive to say the least. Why? Because the Chinese have put the most efficient ICE ever produced into that BYD it has direct injection, super high compression, fully variable valve so it is throttleless, and also has a Miller cycle so its expansion stoke is much longer than its compression stroke only made possible by full VVT. It’s 48% eff to the electric motors and a world record there too.
Sadly the USA will never see that BYD due to trade tariffs. Mexico is getting BYD I’m tempted to go to Mexico and US one of my LLC to buy one and then plate it in Mexico and drive it across the border Texas has to honor Mexican plates on a corporate vehicle due to nafta.
Towing distance doesn’t count as “mileage”.
My 2017 Ford Focus has gotten as much as 51 mpg and routinely gets 42-43 mpg on highway trips. Not bad considering I paid about half the cost of a Prius o buy it.
2.2/100km is 108 mpg US gallons...In a $15,000 USD vehicle not a 48,000 vehicle. The Chinese are kicking a$$ and taking names in the auto industry. The Don is right it will be a bloodbath as soon as they are allowed to export to North America. Mexico is first they will corner that market and Texas being next door we see Mexican plates all the time NAFTA means they are legal here as long as they are current in Mexico a person can drive Mexican plates and Mexican titled car here if thst have USA insurance that’s like $30 a month for liability only. This test was done in normal traffic with battery competently depleted so only in gas hybrid mode...again 2.2L/100km is 108mpg in real.world traffic that’s absolutely insane. That BYD also carries a bladder busting 1300+ miles of petrol. That’s equal to DFW to New Orleans and back without a stop. My bladder hurts just thinking about 18 hours in the seat.
Cost of ownership is still higher with hybrids.
As long as that’s the case, that’s a deal breaker for me.