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Does anyone have experience driving a Prius on Oahu? I will be relocating to Oahu, in a couple of months. I have a 2012 Prius IV and I am wondering what kind of gas mileage I will get. The last year I've been doing mainly city driving and the mileage is horrible, approximately 39 mpg. When I lived in a rural area I was getting 48 mpg. I am wondering if my Oahu mileage won't be much better than what I'm getting now.
Also, I've heard that XM and Entune isn't available on Oahu, true?
Does anyone have experience driving a Prius on Oahu? I will be relocating to Oahu, in a couple of months. I have a 2012 Prius IV and I am wondering what kind of gas mileage I will get. The last year I've been doing mainly city driving and the mileage is horrible, approximately 39 mpg. When I lived in a rural area I was getting 48 mpg. I am wondering if my Oahu mileage won't be much better than what I'm getting now.
Also, I've heard that XM and Entune isn't available on Oahu, true?
Although I don't have a Prius (and they are very common here), I do have a Lexus ES300 hybrid - essentially a bigger car with more batteries.
My estimated gas mileage on the sticker is 40 MPG (city and highway). I get better than that on flat roads and closer to 35MPG across hilly terain - batteries do best in warmer climate, so I would imagine if you drive on the flatter roads you'll get close or better than the estimated MPG Prius states.
No satellite radio in Hawaii. Entune doesn't work in Hawaii either.
Years ago we had a Honda Civic. That thing religiously got 35 mpg no matter what it was doing. Even pulling a trailer (we had to custom make a trailer hitch for it since we couldn't find a pre-manufactured one) it still got 35 mpg. Haven't a clue why things haven't improved tons since then, this was an eighties Honda. You'd think by now, there'd be a small car that would routinely get 75 mpg. Oh well, now we have electric and solar power, I guess.
Most traffic on Oahu is the stop and go or the stop and sit type, so I doubt you'd get any "highway" type mileage. Best way to get good gas mileage on Oahu is to live as absolutely close to work as possible and walk to work, IMHO. Or catch a bus if possible. With driving a car, you not only have to get where you're going but then find a place to leave the car as well.
My cars always got slightly better mileage on Oahu than they do in Seattle, but I think part of that is down to the fact traffic is a lot less congested there overall (feel like I'll open Pandora's Box there, but it can be bumper-to-bumper from Everett to Tacoma, although traffic IN Honolulu is worse than IN Seattle) and you never have sub-freezing winter mornings like we do in the northern parts of the country. Could also be related to additional wear-and-tear on them now vs. then.
BTW, all those Prius owners driving slow must be transplants from Seattle....60mph speed limit=Prius in the fast lane doing 45mph; 70mph speed limit=Prius in the fast lane doing 50mph. I guess pretty much everyone drives like that here, though.
I moved here in December and I've been getting terrible mileage on my 2010 Prius. In AZ, I was averaging around 49 mpg and in Honolulu I only get 43-44 mpg. My auxiliary battery died three weeks after I got here, too. Apparently, that is a common problem with the Prius when it's shipped by boat.
My 2006 gets about 51 MPG using 195/60/15 tires (aftermarket tires, wider than the stock ones. With the stock tires I got up to about 54-55 MPG.) This is if I'm not using the A/C consistently and with driver only, no passenger. Using the A/C and driver only, about 47 MPG. With 1 passenger, mileage drops about 1-2 MPG.
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