IslandTractor
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- Prudence Island, RI
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- 2007 Kioti DK40se HST, Woods BH
Please re-read my post. A Prius with 1 person on board getting 50MPG burns 0.02 gallons per person per mile [(1/50)/1=0.02]. A suburban with 6 people on board getting 20MPG burns 0.008333333 gallons per person per mile [(1/20)/3=0.0083333333]. So a Prius (in that scenario) uses 2.4 times more fuel per person per mile than the suburban. On a 1000 mile trip, the 6 people in the Suburban would each need to buy 8.333 gallons of fuel while the one guy in the Prius would need to buy 20 gallons of fuel. If you put 4 people in the Prius and 6 in the suburban, you would be correct. Aaron Z
Why do you guys keep comparing a Prius with driver only to a Suburban with six people on board?? That's rediculous. Another of Houston's brain farts.
Compare either same number of passengers or max passengers for the vehicle. In either scenario. Prius wins easily.
Do the math with nine in the Suburban versus five in the Prius. Neither vehicle by the way would achieve rated mileage when fully loaded.
Suburb with nine pax: (1/20)/9= 0.0056gal per pax per mile
Prius with 5 pax: (1/50)/5= 0.004gal per pax per mile
The Prius is 40% more efficient at max capacity.
Of course there are only rare occasions when long trips would be made with either vehicle loaded to max capacity. More realistic would be to run the numbers with three or four pax and the Prius or just about any other vehicle on the market would trounce the Suburb on efficiency under those realistic conditions.
HS is a moron.