Alright, here's been my driving patterns and experience so far. To start off, I'm up to 55 MPG, should hit 60's tomorrow. I reset the MPG reader at the beginning of this so I could start fresh. As I described previously, I was afraid to charge it at home because I wasn't certain it was a 15A circuit so I was on hybrid to start the 1st day.
Day 1 (Hybrid): Drove to the middle of Wisconsin, put about 200 miles on it in Hybrid mode on almost pure highway. I did about 41.5 MPG on the day. It drove great, no problems accelerating or anything along those lines. I'm still confused as to why the first one I drove acted like that, this was every bit what the Accord was here. Wisconsin is pretty hilly and I think that hurt the MPG some, but there were no struggles with any of it from a driving or noise perspective. Also had a 2nd person with me who was running the AC.
Day 2 (Hybrid): Still hadn't charged. I drove to work which is 12.5 miles and what would probably described as a mix of city and highway. Got 48 MPG on the way in with hybrid mode which got my overall MPG up to 42.5 by itself. When you get those regen miles from stopping it really bumps your MPG ratings up a lot. Not having another person and not running the AC probably helps as well.
Day 2 (Electric): Charged it up at work, took a couple hours as advertised. Battery read 21 miles on a full charge. I drove it home the 12.5 miles and it still had 13 when I arrived home - the trip meter read 8.7 EV miles and 4 Regen miles. You can actually get more than the 21 miles if you drive this properly, nice... Charged it up at home and it only took a few hours since it was half full. My MPG rating had jumped into the high 40's at this point.
Day 3 (Electric): Read 23 miles off of the full charge. Drove the 12 miles to work in pure electric, I think it read 13 miles again when I got there. Just cracked the 50 MPG barrier in the process. It only took about an hour to charge since it was half full, read 24 miles off of this charge, it seems to keep going up as it realizes I'm a regen brake guru. Went to lunch, which was 13 miles there and back. Car again read 13 miles on the battery - go to the charging station. Some ******* parked their hybrid in the EV spot, and there's actually plenty of parking under the building at this time since I took a late lunch... Come to find it's the maintenance guy's car, who is fully aware that I have an EV since they had to clear some stuff out of here to open it up... and who is the guy that installed this thing 3 years ago and painted EV spot on the space. We'll see where this goes, but it appears some people might not be happy about me having an EV. Anyways, despite their attempts to stop me from saving the planet the 13 miles it had managed to get me to a couple of blocks from my house, and the plain hybrid battery carried me those final blocks since it was just side streets. 26 miles of pure electric off of a single charge. Now my MPG is up to 55 and I haven't used a drop of gas since Monday morning. It just managed to complete it's charge from 0 off of my standard house outlet in 5 hours almost to the dot.
Now, your EV mileage will vary. I've been running the stereo and charging my iPhone off of it, but I haven't needed climate control since it's nice out. This drive is pretty flat. You will get less than this in some circumstances like if you use the climate control, especially heated seats if you have them. You'll get a bit more if the drive is more downhill and a bit less if it's more uphill, etc.
It takes 7 Kwh to charge this thing. For me this is about 77 cents. So it appears I'll probably be somewhere between 3 and 4 cents a mile on the electric side. Gas is $4 a gallon, so that's going to run about 9 cents a mile it seems beyond that. Car it replaces was getting about 20 MPG, so about 20 cents a mile. Takes the cost of this daily to and from work drive from $5.00 down to 77 cents basically - so that's $91 a month in that alone. Should save quite a bit in fuel costs with this thing compared to what it replaced.
As far as what it saves over the hybrid version of this, seems to be about $30 a month at current gas/electric rates for this work portion of the drive. $360 a year here, so it would pay itself back in 10 years on just this drive alone. Throw in some lunch driving, weekend driving, etc and it'll obviously shorten some. It would also shorten if my commute were longer and I was using the full battery each way back and forth from work (so long as there's a charger on each end). Illinois is mandating that they get charging stations at all rest stops by the end of 2016 or something, I'm guessing their availability around the state will trend upwards. And we'll have to see where gas and electric prices go in the coming years. It'll probably be a few years before knowing if it's worth it or not.
Very happy with this decision, awesome car. Only wish I would have done this sooner, it appears that there was a tax credit from Illinois last year. Although it also appears that Ford was charging more for the cars as well (coincidence?)