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Originally Posted by rmay635703
The max fuel economy you can get hypermiling is from a 2006 era Prius.
The best fuel economy model (for normal driving) is a Generation 3 model.
So if you can care less how or how fast you drive you can get more fuel economy out of a 2006 using all hypermiling methods, but a Gen 3 can give you more fuel economy driving normally but its max fuel economy is about 20% less than the generation 2.
Cheers
Ryan
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Fuelly and Fueleconomy.gov both don't bear this out. I'm looking on there and the max-hypermilers for both generations are getting a hair over 70mpg (disregarding some weird 120-ish readings which I'm guessing are plug-in prii, or other expensive battery mods). Obviously the averages agree with your second conclusion (higher for gen3) but it's your other claim which I'm curious about. Do you have any data to back it up?