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Old 04-25-2019, 03:13 PM   #78 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Geo Metro
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Last 3: 70.09 mpg (US)

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90 day: 54.46 mpg (US)

Even Fancier Metro - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage top spec
90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

Appliance car Mirage - '14 Mitsubishi Mirage ES (base)
90 day: 62.14 mpg (US)
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My friends are traveling again, and I offered to be bribed with the use of their car in exchange for feeding their cat.

News since last time:

- The car shows 5.1 L/100 km "lifetime" fuel economy after 20,000 km / 12,000 miles. That's just 46 mpg US - not so great, at first glance. When I returned the car to them last September after my week of EV driving, it was sitting at 4.1 / 57 mpg US.

Keep in mind most of their ownership so far has been during winter (5 out of 9 months). Also keep in mind, as apartment-dwellers, they hardly ever plug it in (they're looking for a house).

- It's suffered a few scratches & dings. And they've already made an insurance claim to replace the front bumper cover that was shattered when someone in a parking lot backed into them on a cold winter day.

- The $5k Ontario provincial EV rebate was cancelled not long after they got the car. It's about to be replaced by a less generous ($2500) federal rebate.
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