After taking Cassie to the St James Farm Preserve, I did something I had not done in 335 days: I fueled my car. Between February 2nd and yesterday, I drove 3,335 km (2,073 mi) and used 34.4 L (9.1 gal) of gas for an average economy of 1.03 L/100 km (228.2 MPG).
This is what happens when you live somewhere with decent public transportation and drive a plug-in hybrid.
Sadly, as a plug-in car gets older—I've had mine for just over 7 years now—the battery slowly loses its capacity. In 2019 she got about 51 km on a charge; now she gets about 40. But on the days I drove during 2025, I averaged just 10 km (6 mi), which not coincidentally is the round-trip distance to Whole Foods.
Still, I'm pretty happy to have spent only $32 on gasoline in 2025. I don't expect I'll be able to repeat that with this or any other internal-combustion car in future.
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