Our Toyota RAV4 Hybrid is now approaching 5 years old and we are still getting an average of 46 MPG on the secondary roads around our town. We have just been taking it in for its scheduled maintence and with synthetic oil it only needs oil changes every 10,000 miles and where it uses the power regeneration system for battery recharging it extends the life of the brakes.
The new RAV’s now get up to 60 MPG.
OTFoolish
"Our Toyota RAV4 Hybrid is now approaching 5 years old and we are still getting an average of 46 MPG on the secondary roads around our town. "
My 2007 Prius still getting 44 mpg. Newer ones are in the 50s.
Only 40 mpg when 100F outside though.
13 years old and I plan to keep it a while longer.
Oil change once a year. On second set of tires. No problems with battery and brakes. Did need little 4 amp hour gel cell - that ‘starts’ the car - actually fires up the computers - and provides the door lock function - smart FOB - don’t even need to insert key…just keep in pocket.
Got 144,000 miles on the Malibu - the road car - 2016 and still original brakes 50% there. Maybe go 200,000 before needing brakes? or more? Oil change when it gets down to 20% oil life indicated which is 7500-8000 miles typically. 29 mpg on trips.
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The new RAV’s now get up to 60 MPG.
I think you must be talking about blended mileage from the new RAV4 Prime, which is a plug-in hybrid that is rated 94 mpg equivalent on electric power, then 38 mpg combined city/highway on gas. I’d love one of those. They are high performance, highly utilitarian vehicles, 4WD, and get 42 miles range on electric power. Sweet.
They are also eligible for the full $7500 federal tax credit for EVs. Unfortunately they are they are thin on the ground and the cheapest you can find one in my region is ~$43k, so even with the tax credit, it’s more than I’d spend on a car.
Yeah, but the money you also save on gas and maintence help take the sting out of the price. The other sweet deal they were offering when we got ours was no money down and no interest on 5 year loan with purchase price.
So our funds have sat in our Roth IRA and we have been gettibg the monetary growth.
OTFoolish