Thread: Hybrid Newbie
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Old 02-23-2008, 07:56 PM
ken1784 ken1784 is offline
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Default Re: Hybrid Newbie

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Originally Posted by haroldo View Post
You won't be able to appreciate a hybrid's full benefit with three mile drives, sorry.
My experience is we got very good benefit on short drives in winter.
My Prius mileage is about 15km/L(35MPG), however my previous car was 1994 Honda Accord Wagon 2.2L and got only 6km/L(14MPG) on the same situation.
We see 2.5 times improvement and are very happy about that.

Ken@Japan
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