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Originally Posted by nimblemotors
I can get 60mpg when I 'hypermile' my prius, really not hard either.
No way an Echo could do that.
Regen brakes gets a lot of 'attention' because it is like 'free energy', but it is not very significant; unless you drive like my son drove his Prius, race to a stoplight, then jam the brakes, race to the next stoplight.
He would get only 45mpg.
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Nimblemotors, it is cool to see somebody on this forum who I know. I guess the ecomodding, and electric car community is kind of a small world.
Sometimes I stew about the idea of getting my hands on a Prius and converting it to strictly ICE, with the intent of finding out the difference would be in fuel economy. This is not a very realistic thing to do since so much of it is integrated, but it is a neat thought. I would put my money on an all ICE Prius for driving a long distance on flat ground, but I don't know enough to predict an around town winner.