Prius Gas Mileage

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 15:40 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 25.11.2009, 22:44 -0500 schrieb Marcus D. Leech:
> > On 11/25/2009 10:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Jonathan Ryshpan writes:
> > >
> > >> The gas mileage on my Prius has slowly declined from about 40 mpg when I
> > >> bought it in 2005 (2d hand, it's a 2004 model year) to about 35 mpg
> > >> today.  Has anyone else noticed this?
> > >> Any ideas why?  It could, of course, be just that I'm paying less
> > >> attention to driving for good gas mileage, or have let the pressure in
> > >> the tires go down, but I don't think so.
> > >
> > > Try upgrading your Prius' kernel to the latest version in updates.
> > >
> > >
> > Perhaps one of the kernel performance measurement tools would be in order?
> >    Might have to translate from context-switches/sec to MPG, but that's what
> >    'units' is for, right?
> 
> Sounds like a perfect job for powertop to me. Did somebody port it over
> to this "prius" architecture (some kind of RISC?).
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I think someone needs to give it a hummer

Craig


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