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Toyota Corolla 1 100.00%
VW TDI 0 0%
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Old Today, 09:01 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Avalon - '13 Toyota Avalon HV
90 day: 40.45 mpg (US)

Prius - '06 Toyota Prius
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Originally Posted by Taylor95 View Post
99% of those miles will be highway miles

An EV really does make sense - what I need might be out of the budget though. It needs to go like 140 miles on a single charge in all seasons. Plus insurance is more on an EV. I'll be living somewhere with solar panels though, so it is pretty tempting.

I do like the idea of a Prius. One just popped up for just over 4k. It's a 2013 in decent shape. 50 mpg is pretty good, and I might be able to get more with various aero mods.

I also spent a lot of time thinking about getting a TDI instead. The major downside of that is that gas is $0.50 cheaper per gallon here. I'm really just looking for something cheap and reliable.
My Nissan Leaf lost more than 50% of range in the winter, and that was one with a heat pump heater, on clean roads, and I was trying my hardest to squeeze as many miles as possible out of it (heater pretty much off most of the time except when I needed to defrost the windshield, very easy on the accelerator, not going at full highway speeds).

Now the Leaf isn't the greatest EV of all time. But I figure anyone wanting an EV where it's cold should get at least double the range they'd need as it will easily be cut in half in the winter.

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