a few observations:
- forget about honda insight. it is not very fuel-efficient.
- the Prius can give you about the same gasoline consumption as a small
manual car (such as the alto, the i10, etc.). this is true both in-town
and out-of-town.
- one of the reasons that the Prius is much more efficient then petrol
cars of comperable size - is that its fewl/electricity
consumption/generation GUI encourages you to drive more efficiently. you
will notice that most Prius owners don't drive very fast - much rarer
then with drivers in other cars of comparable size.
now, to some numbers:
I live in haifa, and drive often up and down-hill. unlike jerusalem,
where there are many long not-very-steep roads , in haifa drives are
usually shorter, and steeper.
my mother, who drove almost only inside the city (haifa), got to a fuel
consumption of ~15.5km/l. using the same car, i get to around 17.5km/l -
because i drive more outside the city (on flater and faster roads).
when driving on the haifa-tel-aviv road, in various driving conditions
(except when during a *very* slow jam where you hardly move) - going a
little better then 20km/l is achieveable - unless i'm very late and
drive too fast (and then it can go down to 15.5-16km/l).
regarding the hybrid toyota yaris - i've no idea, as i don't know anyone
that owns this car.
if you consider buying a hybrid card - you'll do well to consider an
older card (a 3-4 year old car) - it is more economical.
regarding the need to replace its batery - the price of the batery is
not that expensive any more (as far as i know - less then 10K NIS - i
heard figures between 6K and 14K - and it's hard to know who to believe
- i can ask the car repair shop next time i go for the yearly
treatment), and you will probably not need to replace it too early. in
any event, the battery comes with an 8-year/150K-km guarantee from the
manufacturer.
--guy
On 09/15/2013 02:42 PM, Mord Behar wrote:
Hi
I know that this is off-topic, but I really don't know who to ask.
See, I need a large pool of Linux-like brains that live in Israel for this.
I mean, people (like me) who track gas liters and kilometerage, wear and
tear on the car, insurance and things like that.
Does anybody have numbers and experience to show how economical it is to
buy a hybrid car, and which one?
At what point of city-driving and non-city-driving does it pay to buy a
hybrid car? Gas is really expensive now, and probably just going to go
up. But hybrid cars are expensive too and the shelf life of the battery
is 5-10 years...
And I suppose that the terrain matters as well. In Jerusalem the hybrid
car will use more gasoline than in Tel Aviv.
Thanks.
P.S.
Mods, if you remove this message I totally understand, but could you
please point me somewhere else instead?
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