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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
Wife has been able to manage 47 mpg here in Tucson, AZ, with mostly 45 mph urban driving, and A/C blasting. Of course, our Prius is a later GenIII 2014 model.
Having driven our Prius in LA / Burbank area, I'm going to guess that freeway driving is your problem: (a) you have to floor the pedal to merge with (b) 75-80 mph traffic that's supposed to be only going 65 mph. Remember EPA mpg tests are basically performed at 55 mph, with a few 'brief' spurts up to 65 mph.
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Maybe prior to 2008, but not anymore:
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/fe_test_schedules.shtml
2008 EPA tests are much more representative of real-world than the fluffy numbers pre-2008.