{"id":5530,"date":"2013-11-19T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2013-11-19T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:13:51","slug":"prius-taxi-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5530","title":{"rendered":"Prius Taxi Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2013\/11\/prius_taxi_jz600x417a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignnone size-large\"><Br><Br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2013\/11\/prius_taxi_jz600x350b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignnone size-large\"><Br><Br>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/prius\/\">Prius<\/a> taxi ride offered a bit of data on fuel efficiency, durability and cost of ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The kind driver mentioned that the Prius had 277,000 miles on it.  &#8220;We replace the battery pack at 150,000 miles.  They are expensive, about $5,000.00.  &#8220;We average at least 41mpg and drive them hard.  One Prius in our fleet has 350,000 miles on it.  They cost about $28,000 new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.vw.com\/tdi-clean-diesel-and-hybrid\/\">diesel Golf, Jetta or Passat<\/a> might be a better deal economically.  I wonder if someone has done the math? <\/p>\n<p>The Prius is certainly an interesting car and marketing initiative, but I do find them somewhat less &#8220;solid&#8221; than others.  <\/p>\n<p>A recent Asymcar podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymcar.com\/?p=77\">questioned why fleet owners have been slow to adopt non-traditional power systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I am constantly amazed at the places I find iPad apps used for line of business functions.  The iOS wave continues to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Prius taxi ride offered a bit of data on fuel efficiency, durability and cost of ownership. The kind driver mentioned that the Prius had 277,000 miles on it. &#8220;We replace the battery pack at 150,000 miles. They are expensive, about $5,000.00. &#8220;We average at least 41mpg and drive them hard. One Prius in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5532,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}