Oil Change and Self Maintenance

$0, you won't need to replace the traction battery

 

The traction battery is like the engine or transmission. Those might need to be replaced during the car's life, but more likely they'll last until the end. If needed, by the time you could need to replace the battery, there'll be other options besides new from Toyota.

The maintenance schedule is up on Toyota's site with the owner's manual.

 

Everyone who buys the car in the States has a slim booklet in the glove box, titled Warranty and Maintenance Booklet. It has a “schedule”, lamentably only in event-by-event format though. You can create a nice table format spreadsheet from it, in a few hours, and that process gets you familiar with all the maintenance items to boot. Some of the maintenance listed is nonsensical, for various reasons, probably included for liability issues. And there are some glaring omissions: brake and transaxle fluid changes are never mentioned, but worth considering.

if you can’t find that booklet, pdf format is available for download, one source being Toyota Tech Info.

the schedule stops abruptly, at 120k miles or 12 years, IIRC. But setting up a spreadsheet format, it’s easy to extrapolate.

the latest spreadsheet table translation I've done is Gen 4. Attached are two versions, per the book, and extrapolated:

2016 Prius Maintenance Schedule (US).xlsx - Google Drive

2016 Prius Maintenance Schedule (US) - extended to 240K miles.xlsx - Google Drive

^ You can probably just revise these with minor tweaks (if any), for 5th gen.

Previously asked-and-answered here:

First Oil Change | Page 2 | PriusChat

 

Which cars require you suck the oil out the top

 

It's not that cars require you to suck the oil out the top, but Mercedes, in particular, have the oil filters on top, so you can do the entire oil/filter change from the top (no lift required). It's just a matter of convenience for DIYers. And buying the oil vacuum pump, of course.

 

Add Subaru and some GMs to the filter on the top list.