What kind of performance can I expect to receive?
Before any decides to flame me and give me link upon link to other places where this topic has been covered, revisited and the coverage revisted again, let me tell you what my driving habits are. First of all I should mention that I have a large family, so I have a mid-sized van for any recreational driving. The Prius would take the place of my commuting car.
My driving is the same mon-fri. It doesn't change. There are no variances what-so-ever. I live on a military installation. I drive 6 miles one way from home to work. I drive home for lunch break. I drive back to work. I drive home. The car stays parked until I go to work the next day. I put on a total of 24 miles each day. Along this "fascinating" journey, there are 2 traffic lights. They always catch me. There's no highway. My max speed limit is 30 mph. Yes, that is it. Only 30 mph.
My driving habits on the weekend are just as predictable as they are on the weekdays. I don't go anywhere in my commuting car on the weekends.
The questions I have are few, but mean a lot to my buying decision.
1) At the speeds I drive and for the lenght of time I drive them (30 mph for approx 10 minutes), what kind of gas mileage can I anticipate?
2) Because I do not do much acceleration and do not drive for any extended length of time, will I run into problems with keeping the battery charged?
3) Currently I do not follow the recommended oil change interval. With my current commuting car, it takes a little over 5 months to get to the 3k oil change mark. And I can't see changing oil every 3 months having only driven a little over 1,500 miles. How will this habit have to be amended when I add a Prius into the picture?
These are the only real questions I have. Now, if there are links anyone wish to give me that I may have overlooked, please feel free. I yield the floor... er, ummm thread... to the next speaker. I mean writer. Or would it be typer?
Before any decides to flame me and give me link upon link to other places where this topic has been covered, revisited and the coverage revisted again, let me tell you what my driving habits are. First of all I should mention that I have a large family, so I have a mid-sized van for any recreational driving. The Prius would take the place of my commuting car.
My driving is the same mon-fri. It doesn't change. There are no variances what-so-ever. I live on a military installation. I drive 6 miles one way from home to work. I drive home for lunch break. I drive back to work. I drive home. The car stays parked until I go to work the next day. I put on a total of 24 miles each day. Along this "fascinating" journey, there are 2 traffic lights. They always catch me. There's no highway. My max speed limit is 30 mph. Yes, that is it. Only 30 mph.
My driving habits on the weekend are just as predictable as they are on the weekdays. I don't go anywhere in my commuting car on the weekends.
The questions I have are few, but mean a lot to my buying decision.
1) At the speeds I drive and for the lenght of time I drive them (30 mph for approx 10 minutes), what kind of gas mileage can I anticipate?
2) Because I do not do much acceleration and do not drive for any extended length of time, will I run into problems with keeping the battery charged?
3) Currently I do not follow the recommended oil change interval. With my current commuting car, it takes a little over 5 months to get to the 3k oil change mark. And I can't see changing oil every 3 months having only driven a little over 1,500 miles. How will this habit have to be amended when I add a Prius into the picture?
These are the only real questions I have. Now, if there are links anyone wish to give me that I may have overlooked, please feel free. I yield the floor... er, ummm thread... to the next speaker. I mean writer. Or would it be typer?