Anyone own a Nissan Altima Hybrid and use it primarily in the Bay Area? If so, what sort of gas mileage are you experiencing?

It seems like temperature, traffic, and hills will all affect overall mileage, so I'm curious what the experience is in our area.

It would be a nice addition to this site to be able to filter the reported gas mileage for all the cars by a given radius around a ZIP code (or some other location selection). It's seems like everyone would be benefit from being able to see mileage for the specific area that they live in.

Thanks in advance.

I think a lot more car samples are required to do something like that... It seems like we (NAH owners) are pretty sparsely spread out so it would be only a handful of cars per zip + radius.

As for your question on mileage, on my trip to SF I averaged 39.2mpg (computer readout), then in the city it dropped to 38.1 over about 50 miles or so. Based on that I would estimate that if I drove in SF all the time I would be getting around 35 on the computer readout, which is around 33mpg at the pump. The weather was quite warm when I went there, so I assume when the cold hits I can prb get around 30ish mpg (at the pump)...

San Francisco was one of the fleet testing grounds for the FEH in taxi's. Perhaps there is some data floating around. The last article I read stated that the taxi drivers were extremely pleased with the hybrids. Also that the cars were holding up very well.

It gets late early out there. - Yogi