Like many who have posted here, I have been very pleased with my TCH. (I've had it just a year, this month.)

But also like many others, I have been disappointed by two things:

1. Lots of times when I have a short trip to run, the car simply will not allow me do it on battery power alone, even if I have nearly a full state of charge.

2. In city or even mixed driving, I have never (not even once) been able to achieve mpg equal to the EPA city rating over a whole tank of fuel.

A little over a week ago, however, I finally got my partial plug-in equipment installed, and all is better now.

Last Friday night I plugged it in for the first time. Saturday morning I drove to the convenience store and back virtually on battery power alone. Except for the unavoidable brief ice bursts at first start-up, the ICE never ran at all.

And...........over the last week I have seen a decrease of a good 10% to 15% decrease in fuel consumption-----maybe more!

 

Sounds very exciting! Ok, I'll be the first to ask...what did it entail, and how much did it cost?

 

About $40.00n in parts, and I installed it myself in a couple of hours.

 

OK, you got my curiosity going...

What did you do????

 

Could you provide enough details so some of us could do it. Thanks

 

Yes, Please tell us how you did this!!

 

$40???

 

yeah! Call me a skeptic, but something doesn't seem right here.

 

I guess a power inverter, a cord end, 6 inches of 12/3 wire, and an extension cord?

 

a hampster and a treadmill - $20.00;

all the poop - PRICELESS!