I'm assuming you were gliding? I P&G'd on Lougheed Highway (westbound out of SFU) to about the Willingdon Ave. I got 15 mins of 2.5L/100km averages (this is the Prius on the Consumption Screen). After Willingdon, the traffic builds so it's 4-5L/100km averages after that.


Hmm, it'll be hard unless you have a Scan Gauge or CanView which gives you the SOC in %. If you rely on the screen, it's hard because the threshold at which the bars change is different going up and down (to avoid wild fluctutations if you're straddling the thresold).

 

I agreed... If it was just me, I would do it a few times to get a good average. If enough people are doing it. I'm sure a pattern will emerge, just like the FE bell curve you find on this site.

 

Ace — From my experience, I'd estimate that, on a flat road at a steady speed of ~60 km/h, you can probably get between 5 and 10 km in pure EV-mode on a battery that started out at 7/8-charge, before the ICE comes on again. If you are stopping and starting all the time, or using air-conditioning, you'll get considerably less.

Stan

 

Thanks SPL.
I think I will find sometime this weekend and try it out myself.

 

Well, I was stuck in my daily traffic jam. As I mention before, I would record how long and far the HV will last. I was down between -2 bar to - 3 bar from my MFD (I don't have a Nav), no A/C, the ICE come on after 12 min of stop and go, and only travelled 0.7 km.

Any comments on these numbers?

I still need to find some time to try it on a closed circuit.

 

I drove 4.1km (2.5 miles) today on a flat, straight road. No wind, radio off, climate control off. I was driving 50kmh (30 mph). Zeroed the trip meter as the car went into electric only and recorded when engine came back on.

 

nice. Did the engine come on b/c you had 2 bars or because you drop one bar (cause I've noticed that the engine will come on when you lose a bar... then you can coax it back off again).

 

Philt, According to my calculations... you only drove for 4.92 minutes. At any rate, I not sure if this would be an accurate way for owners to compare the condition of the HV battery.

 

Philt — Good data! Did you note what the MFD's battery display was both before and after the run? [There are 8 charge states that can be shown, including zero and full. Each is represented by two rows of pixels illuminating on the display.]

Stan

 

I'll reply to the above:
1-I don't have the NAV display so I am relying on the display in the speedometer section. The engine came back on when the display showed about 2 bars left. The gas engine didn't try to come back on before that and I resisted trying to get another bit out of it by slowing down.

2-4.9 minutes seems long when you are going 50kmh on a country road. Remember that I was driving at a steady speed the whole time. No pulse and glide, no coaxing. I have gotten much longer times when sitting in heavy trafffic and moving only a bit at a time but that is too difficult to compare as you are only running the radio and the clime. The car will run about 20 min in that situation.

3- The display was on full when I started but I slowed through an intersection to start so it was in EV mode a few meters before I zeroed my km display. The non-Nav display may not be as clear to read but It looks like I had the equivalent of 2 levels left. It always comes back on at that level.

I tried something else a bit later. I live on the side of a mountain and the driveway in my complex is very steep and long. At one point it levels out and I usually go into EV mode due to the slow speed I am at. Then the steep hill starts again at a sharp curve. I had noticed that the car would stay in EV up the steep curve a ways so I decided to try to get it to stay in EV all the way up. By slowing down to 10kmh I was able to drive in EV all the way up. I drove about 300m. I was amazed that the car would stay in EV on such a steep hill. I can't get up this hill in the winter without chains and 4x4s have difficulty. Not very scientific but interesting.