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Ken Gratton25 Aug 2009
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Toyota Prius: Behind the Wheel Blog

Consumption hovering in low-to-mid fours

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Fuel consumption has crept back up to 4.4L/100km. We've already established that the commute from home to the Carsales office is a sore test of hybrid fuel efficiency (and conventional car fuel efficiency, if the Fiesta's any indication), but with prodigious use of EV mode, the consumption had fallen back to 4.3L/100km by the time Prudence was parked under the building. Of course, with a literal uphill struggle home tonight, in the dark, the fuel consumption average is just as likely to return to 4.4L/100km.


Did some shopping yesterday. Found EV mode was quite handy for cruising the car park, looking for a parking spot without running the petrol engine.


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