Tag: prius
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Driving the Druid to Distraction
In my paid employment, I have to drive places. Now, I can hear all the cries of “a Druid should walk, bicycle or at least use public transport”. But that’s not feasible in the work I do, and the work I do keeps the lights on – and probably the computer you’re reading this on,…
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Replacing the Prius…
So the Prius has got 58,905 miles on the clock and has to go back at 60,000. What to do, what to do…? I was recently asked by someone on Facebook if I could recommend the Prius as a company car. So many Facebook folk had simply laughed and poured scorn on the idea, but…
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Going Faster…
I gave a small sigh of relief as I scanned the list of Toyota’s affected by the ‘accelerator recall’. The Prius wasn’t on it. And then I saw the link to a separate story about Prius brake issues! The accelerator thing appears to be about floormats riding up under the accelerator pedal bedding into the floormat,…
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A year in the Milk Float
I’ve had the Toyota Prius for a whole year now (as of 12th December) and I thought I’d make a note of how it’s been. Many folk have asked what it’s like driving a hybrid and what the economy is, and now it’s time to ‘fess up.
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France
We nipped off to the south west of France between 7th and 20th August (didja miss us?) and the photo’s from that break are now available on the main site. Since folk have asked… We did 1571 miles in the Prius. 2528 km @ 106 g/km CO2. 268 kg of CO2 between three persons… I…
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Fuel-ish prices
Just come across this great site. Shows the spread of petrol (Gasoline) prices across America, using a colour scale from (today) <$3.23 through to a top of >$3.75. Someone’s gone to such trouble to construct this, someone with a gripe about paying too much for their fuel I suspect. But let’s look at this from…
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The (taxable) benefits of milk floats…
Got my tax code through for the next financial year the other day. The taxable benefit for my company car seemed a little high at £2355 and I phoned the Tax Office to query it. I was told in no uncertain terms that my company had updated the files to show that I now ran…
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Big Blue Milk Float
Ok, no milk I’m afraid, but I took delivery of the new motor this morning – a Toyota Prius hybrid in Glacier Blue. It still feels as good as the demonstrator and I look forward to seeing mileages in the 60’s. My old Peugeot went away having averaged 49 mpg(uk) over her last ten fillups…
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Keep me hangin’ on the telephone…
Ok, so I’ve just ordered the Prius, a T4; I didn’t want to pay the not inconsiderable extra for the T-Spirit options. The extras were Sat-Nav (I have a perfectly fine and transportable Tom-Tom), the Parking Fairy (which after a couple of dozen attempts on private land has failed utterly to park, more often driving…
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On the road to nowhere…
So today a predication appears to have come closer to truth. The planet’s ability to soak up CO2 is being compromised. As we pump ever more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere the carbon sinks we rely on to at least slow the onslaught of climate change are acting chaotically. Less CO2 is being absorbed by…
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