Beating the EPA

Originally uploaded by mykoleary.

I haven’t yet had the time to post about my new love – the Prius we got for Christmas at the end of 2006. It’s a much more comfortable ride than the CR-V, and the gas mileage beats the pants off of it too. Both are huge pluses for someone with a 1-2 hour commute.

I’d been getting down quite a bit from the drudgery of the drie, but with the Prius have a new spring in my commute step. We just got back from visiting Ocean Shores yesterday also, so it’s just been on its first official family trip. Now it just needs to hit Oregon and California…

Anyway, this is an ego shot of the MID/MFD in the dashboard showing a glorious 65.9 MPG for a 28 mile trip I took to work a couple weeks back. It doesn’t include the 5 or so miles to the gas station from our house, but still, that’s a pretty darn good rate for the remainder of the trip!

Once I get the past four tanks of gas information into my greenhybrid.com account, I’ll post an entry with my cumulative MPG for any other Prius lovers who may be interested in seeing another Puget Sound MPG data point.