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Your Lexus is presumably an SUV? A bone stock 2024 Prius gets 57 mpg and has almost 200HP. I'm in a 2013 Prius C that gets nearly 50. My previous car was a 2
by duffyjp 3y ago
Your Lexus is presumably an SUV? A bone stock 2024 Prius gets 57 mpg and has almost 200HP. I'm in a 2013 Prius C that gets nearly 50.
My previous car was a 2000 Lexus ES that got 17 mpg. I basically paid for the Prius' loan with gas savings.
I'm also in the market as 10 years is about the max in Wisconsin before everything goes to hell, and I'll probably get another hybrid. My wife had a PHEV for a while but we didn't save any money on fuel as electricity is expensive here.
- harkinian 3y agoThe hybrids use less gasoline for sure, when comparing apples to apples new car vs new car. Cost-effectiveness is more complicated. However, if you take all the compromises of a tiny late-80s/early-90s Honda Civic, it'll do 50-60 MPG.
- Gibbon1 3y agoWhen I was living an working in San Francisco I drove a full sized passenger van that got 15mpg. Was okay since I was putting 4000 miles a year on it. Then my company moved. Running the numbers buying a used Prius was a small win based on gas savings. But then a trip to Marin and back in the van was probably $100 vs $40 for the Prius.
- duped 3y agoIt's not an SUV.
- yumraj 3y ago> My wife had a PHEV for a while but we didn't save any money on fuel as electricity is expensive here. Prius Prime owner here in CA, and this is especially true here. It’s almost a wash between gas and EV here, unless you have solar. In PG&E areas EVs make zero sense for non-solar customers.