{"id":6798,"date":"2014-09-23T19:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2014-09-23T19:56:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:56:01","slug":"70mpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/70mpg\/","title":{"rendered":"70+MPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>70+ miles per gallon! The 2012 Prius C Megan and I got for commuting to school can get 70 MPG OR BETTER on the highway. Wow. Normal driving is more like 50 MPG but wow.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/70-MPG-Prius-C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/70-MPG-Prius-C-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/70-MPG-Prius-C-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/70-MPG-Prius-C-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/70-MPG-Prius-C-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/70-MPG-Prius-C-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTo get this mileage I was on the highway, mostly in the middle lane, stayed around 57 mph (the speed of traffic) and I drove behind a truck at a very normal following distance like in the photo. The image shows 18 miles on the odometer and 70.4mpg!<\/p>\n<p>My mpg for the trip climbed to 72.5 after I drove on some city streets in San Leandro for a while. If I didn&#8217;t have the A\/C running, I could have done better but hey.<\/p>\n<p>If you write back about how terribly dangerous drafting is and how I&#8217;m going to die, please see the photo above: I was following the truck at a VERY normal distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70+ miles per gallon! The 2012 Prius C Megan and I got for commuting to school can get 70 MPG OR BETTER on the highway. Wow. Normal driving is more like 50 MPG but wow. To get this mileage I was on the highway, mostly in the middle lane, stayed around 57 mph (the speed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}