based on what?
k let me read the article... but i'm going to screw this article up...
k... basically read the article... accually read it months ago...
but let me pull out the calculator...
okay they claim that 250,000 Toyota and Lexus have clocked more then 5 billion miles... so on average 20k miles... okay...
now if saving petrolum based fuels is the goal... would you want to compare it to the best vehicle (fuel ecconomic leader) outside of the hybrid market...
we obviously see that people who own very expensive cars also own a prius... so the quality of the car isnt of concern...
so... if we choose a corolla to make the comparisons between, and lets go with the epa records of 30-38mpg... Fueleconomy.gov says combined is 33... it says accual average combined is really 29.5 (sounds like no one is driving on the highway)
but lets go with the 33 mpg...
the 2006 prius says 51-60 combined is 55... so... how does the consumer end up with 39.1? wow...
but lets just go with that... go from 33mpg to 55mpg...
so lets say, the difference is one gallon of gas gets you 22 miles farther...
so lets see here... in order to save 100 million gallons, that would mean, these 250k vehicles would need to have...
250k vehicles that travel an average of 12k miles a year... that means that these vehicles accumulate 3 billion miles per year...
so we can assume that the 250k units have been sold over the last 5 years...
but even if they were...
that would be... 3x5 years... so 15 billion miles for all 250k units... soo... with our 40% extra fuel ecconomy of the prius...
with 15 billion miles racked up at 33 mpg...
454 million gallons...
with 15 billion miles racked up at 55 mpg...
272 million gallons...
so theoretically if all 250k were on the road for 5 years... they'd acheive a fuel savings of 182 million gallons, but i know most of those were sold last year...
but if the fuel ecconomy is less then what the manufacture suggests... this is all bogus... and its all bogus anyway...
if you want to be good to the enviornment get a bio diesel vehicle.. that way no pollutants and no petrolum is lost...
what about the fuel savings of GM's new trucks... over the toyota trucks...