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Originally Posted by fshagan
Its very hard to do it for economy's sake; its almost always cheaper to buy an older small car and aero-mod it like they do on this site and use some of the hyper-mile techniques to get MPG up into the 40's. Even at double today's gas prices, it would take a lot of driving to make up for an extra $10,000.
And cold weather affects the Prius as well. If you want a heater, the heat has to come from somewhere, and your mileage suffers.
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Forgot the cold weather - heater needed issue. You are absolutely correct. What if you need AC when it is above 85 degrees? Rolling down the windows justs eats up your MPG and makes no sense.
Also forgot the CHARGER issue for the batteries. You can not just charge them with a 12V charger. You need to buy a special charger. And from what I read, it is really bad to drop the battery charge below 40% as that kills some kinds of batteries (and is why the whole EV switch thing for a Prius is a bad idea?). Think about running your battery down way beyond the 40% charge, and what that does to kill your battery. Is this why we do not see Toyota just adding batteries, and calling it and EV prius option?
Every issue together just says that an AERO-MOD is the best of all worlds, per the financial math.