At first, I really hated it. In fact, after
driving it home the first day I decided I was done with the thing. I
wasn't going to drive it anymore for a week. I was just going to walk
and ride my bike. How green is that?
But the next day I forced
myself to drive it again. And then something happened. I turned into a
hypermiler: you know, that guy or gal who ruins it for everyone else on
the road by moving at a glacial pace and only accelerating when life
depends on it. I was trying so hard to get to 50 mpg that soon I was
coasting down hills, gently easing up hills, and generally just letting cars stack up behind me.
Now onto the whole plug-in thing. In theory, this thing can go 13 miles
on electricity alone if it's fully charged. Trouble is, I don't have
reliable power in my garage, so I had to go plug it in over at my friend
James' house. James is a high school teacher and kind of a hippy, so he
was totally fine with having a plug-in Prius parked in his driveway,
sucking electricity out of his house. We charged for about 10 minutes
before I got bored, then hit the road. It bought us about .7 miles,
which turned to .3 on the first uphill. Oh well. But you (and I) get the
idea.
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