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Originally Posted by lars-ss
Wayne, do you mean to say that regen braking has no impact on the test at all? It MUST have an effect - that is energy transplanted back into the HSD system which is not fuel burned, and thus not measured by the bag carbons.....Right?
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But if that's the case then it also benefits the car in real world driving too.
Don't forget that what's on GH is real averages of people driving their cars with SUVs barrelling down blasting their horns behind them etc... The Prius has decent power, plus it's easy to activate since it's fully automatic, so I think real world MPG average is less than EPA tests because of how people really drive versus the tests. What should be noteworthy in the discrepancy is the way people drive the Prius (taking advantage of it's power, rather than it's economy modes of operation) on average, much like the HAH with it's even beefier engine people are getting less MPG because it's so easy and 'fun' to blast away.
What's important is if the Prius (and others) can actually get what the EPA tests show it can get, and indeed it certainly can, given the data here, it can even far exceed what the EPA says it can get.