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I'm spending about $500/month on gas. On my highway estimate, I included interstate driving (which obviously does not yield good mpg) I've found alternate routes I can take to avoid the interstates so much in the future. Something else I was thinking about was that although I'm driving so much highway, a lot of it is (for example) drive 15 miles, stop, turn on different highway, drive 20 miles, etc. I think the hybrid would really help there.

Most of my driving is done in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois. Electricity here is about $0.10/kwh and gas is $3.44 at the moment. Iwork at a utility company and think there is a chance they will add ev chargers in the future, at least at a few of the offices I commute to. I can get X-Plan pricing, approximately 4,000 tax credit, and a $1,500 additional rebate from Ford along with 0% financing for 60 months. There's two problems: I don't know if I could face losing so much money on a car I've only had for one year(but put 45,000 miles on it), and I'm having a difficult time finding any '14 Energi's in the area.

Energi owners, I currently own a 2013 Ford Fusion SE with the 1.6 Ecoboost engine. With the competetive pricing of the Energi, I'm considering making the switch, but I'm not sure if my daily commutes are ideal for an EV. I typically drive about 150 miles per day, about 90% highway(55-65mph), 10% city. I'm averaging about 32 mpg with my 1.6l, which is good compared to the EPA estimate of 28. My concern is that I drive so many long highway miles...will I still see great MPG numbers out of the Energi? Are any of you making long highway commutes and willing to share your average mpg? Thanks