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Old 10-13-2015, 01:46 AM   #43 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Baltothewolf View Post
What MPG do you get? Accelerating to 'leave most vehicles behind' means pulling a lot from the battery. When you have to regen that later, the tradeoff is usually not worth it.
Average 71.2 mpg over the close to 140K miles I've owned it. Much of that crossing the Sierra Nevada, or climbing into them. (I live just at the eastern base.) Not much time spent in city driving. And as I said, it's not that I accelerate so briskly - maybe half throttle, with a bit of assist for a few seconds - it's that just about everything else out there is either a) slow; or b) driven by people with the reaction time of a Brontosaurus.
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