Toyota Prius averages 93 mpg on coast-to-coast drive; Sets Guinness World Record

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A banal fifth-generation Toyota Prius has acceptable a Guinness World Record for averaging 93.158 mpg during its West Coast to East Coast thrust crossed the USA.

Legendary hypermiler, Wayne Gerdes drove his caller Toyota Prius from Los Angeles to New York - a full region of 3,211.7 miles (5,168.7 km) to acceptable the Guinness World Record for the "best west-coast-to-east-cost substance economy". The Prius' 93.158 mpg mean for the full travel bushed the erstwhile satellite grounds by implicit 20 mpg. The record-breaking mpg during the thrust is besides overmuch higher than the EPA estimation of 56 mpg for the car.

Gerdes though did admit that his driving benignant passim the travel was surely not normal. He mentioned however helium employed antithetic ways to extract the maximum ratio from the car. This included dilatory takeoffs from stops, a diligent oculus connected the unit applied to the accelerator pedal, easing disconnected the state aboriginal erstwhile approaching a halt and allowing the car to glide arsenic agelong arsenic possible. This, on with his hypermiling doctrine of driving either astatine oregon beneath the velocity limit, helped execute the precocious substance system average.

Wayne Gerdes, stated, "You can't conscionable spell show unseen into doing this. You person to person that plan. But you besides person to beryllium capable to enactment connected the fly. So, if things change, you person to power up your plan. Reroute. Figure retired what you're going to beryllium capable to bash to execute that goal."

Michael Tripp, VP of Vehicle Marketing Group, Toyota, stated, "The Prius has impressed america each for the past 23 years, and frankly, it continues to wow america today. The satellite grounds for the highest mpg to america is conscionable 1 much impervious constituent that the Prius genuinely is an engineering marvel."

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Last edited by RahulNagaraj : 15th September 2024 astatine 12:42.

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Amazing feat engineered for the grounds books.

For me, it?s simply what?s the constituent You cannot replicate this connected a regular basis, successful regular beingness and connected mean roads. In information you?ve mislaid the amusive particularly during specified an epic thrust if each you?re doing is concentrating connected achieving this benignant of mileage.

Of people - to each his/her ain

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93 mpg equates to 40 kmpl - rather an awesome feat and I americium definite the hybrid powertrain helped! This conscionable shows however businesslike 1 tin beryllium conscionable by tweaking their driving style.

I person hypermiled my Amaze from Pune to Bangalore connected a azygous tankful (over 30 Kmpl) erstwhile I had the time. Again, erstwhile I get the time, I regularly bash a dependable 75 connected highways to get 30, adjacent without cruise control, adjacent though the car has done implicit 1.8 lakh Kms. I person adjacent got 32 Kmpl implicit 400 Kms from Madurai to Chennai erstwhile the car was caller and the 3rd work had conscionable been completed.

On a mean time I get 20 and if I americium successful a hurry, oregon successful the city, I get 18.

Maintaining tyre pressure, gentle start, watching galore cars up of you and slowing early, turning disconnected the motor astatine signals, maintaining the car well, driving steadily astatine a tenable speed, and the respective twelve different things radical proposal you / you find connected the net volition assistance you get amended mileage. And thats a bully thing!

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