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Who here has filled their MFD bar graph completely?

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  1. 2k1Toaster

    2k1Toaster Brand New Prius Batteries

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    Well last time I went up to the slopes, there was a whiteout blizzard over both passes, both directions, so speeds were 10-20mph the whole way. Good news is it scared all the tourists away and the day was great for skiing!

    But the long drive netted me these pics. The drive was from 7000ft to 5000ft to 11000ft to 8000ft and back to 11000ft. Then reverse for the way home...

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    2k1Toaster Brand New Prius Batteries

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    And those mpg readings are better than anything else on the road for the conditions btw. I drove a Honda Civic Hybrid the week before and it got 28mpg. My usual 34mpg non-hybrid manual civic gets about 22mpg. The Lexus RX gets mid to low teens.
     
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    Coming down the hill is easy to do. I've done it coming down the grapevine north of L.A. It drops from 4k' to 1.8k' in about 5 miles. During that time I had to brake and the battery topped out at 8 bars then engine braking kicked in. After that then it drops another 600' in 2 miles. During that time, I'm driving in EV only at 65mph since the battery is fully charged and it needs to burn off that excess charge.

    Normal driving is impossible without PHEV. This is the best I could do in normal driving condition. http://priuschat.com/forums/attachm...ions/27725d1295677711-new-enginer-kit-a01.jpg
     
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  4. 2k1Toaster

    2k1Toaster Brand New Prius Batteries

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    My driving was "normal" just slow.

    I dont get what yours displays... Is it mpg per X miles since you hit the trip? Mine is mpg per 5 minutes.

    So with your downhill in LA, unless it takes you 30 minutes to go 7 miles you wont get the screen I have.

    Full battery sure. That is an everyday occurrence here in the Rockies. There is a 1800ft change just to get to the nearest store which always tops it up.

    And I should add, this is who has filled it up without a PHEV conversion.
     
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    It would be a bit more helpful to include some more details. Did you mean the full bars were obtained only during the downhill part of the trip? I am guessing so, seeing the average MPG being much less than 50. Long time ago someone (Bob Wilson?) has already devised a scheme to get full bars without much driving at all, just some combination of low speed driving and stopping of which the details I don't remember now.
     
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    Both were over the last 30minutes of the drive. Which is both uphill and downhill and in both directions. Once from home to ski resort, other from ski resort to home. Big hills inbetween for going up and down.

    Just when going up a mountain at high speed you get 12mpg, and going down you get infinite. :) The trick was that traffic was driving really slowly almost constant speed, no stops. It seem like the Prius likes it when you drive up a hill at 15mph...

    Just fun to show when the meter fills up unintentionally with a normal Prius. The HCH can't touch the mpg's on the same journey.
     
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    Do you happen to remember what the approximate instantaneous mpg was going up the hills at that speed? Pure curiosity.
     
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    I wish I could remember, but it was such a fierce blizzard I wasn't even looking at the MFD until I got down to the valley between the front range and the back range. There were some hairy moments. Signs say "10mph" turns, and that is in good conditions! Add snow and ice, and it is no good...

    The Prius handled beautifully though. Better than a jeep two cars infront of me who went around one of the switchback turns too fast, and did a 360 into the 2-3ft snow bank on the other side of the road. Luckily they somehow missed the steady stream of cars on the oncoming direction...
     
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    I did it three days in a row driving back from Monument CO to Sedalia CO on CO Hwy 105. I took pictures of the screen with my cell phone but couldn't figure out how to get them onto my computer. It is a country road where the speed limit is 50 mph and no traffic. The road is about 30 miles long. It isn't level but is relatively flat and winding with low, rolling hills. I guess that, over all, the road was decling in elevation but I've driven it both ways many times and can't say that for sure. That kind of driving must just be in the Prius happy zone.
     
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    I did it a couple times in my 2003. The first time it happened I about shit my pants because I thought I beat the Prius and won! What I would have won, I have no idea. Maybe it was too many video games growing up? :)

    That's cool though. I love seeing the little greenmobiles!
     
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    I had in better days when my beloved prius used to work properly. :(
     
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    Brook side, do you even actually own a prius? Because in Canada with a consumption screen graph in litres/100 km a screen of full bars would indicate a very badly operating prius indeed.(a half hour consuming over 10 litres per 100 km)
     
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    I thought the topic meant regen on every bar? Did I misunderstand this topic?
     
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    Four years driving my Prius, and I don't even know how to read my MFD bar graph.
     
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    I can read the graph - it's the topic i misunderstood.

    Thanks for the insult.
     
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    I believe he said "and I don't even know"... Not directed at you, calm down now...

    The topic was not regen on every bar, but instead "filling the screen". In the US, we get the display in miles per gallon, so higher is better versus the rest of the world where the same screen shows litres/100km and lower is better. So for USDM Prii, having 100% full screen indicates that you got 99.9 miles per gallon or greater for a full 30 minutes. If this were a non USDM car, the same image would indicate getting 10litres/100km for 30 minutes straight I believe (which is absurd, but I think maybe you can do it. ;))
     
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    Until your post, I'd assumed the bar graph display was the same everywhere. Obviously, I never thought it through. It is perfectly obvious that MPG and liters per 100km are inverse functions (using different scales).

    Given this fact, and the way the bar graph operates, I can't imagine any Canadian Prius owner lamenting how he used to fill the bar graph completely but can't any more.
     
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    I've filled it with all regen. Very satisfying!
     
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    Yeah this is an unfair contest for us L/100km guys!

    It's roughly the same for us as filling the MFD with bars all less than one quarter height (2.5 L/100km), but that just doesn't have the same dramatic impact.
     
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  20. Boo

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    I wasn't responding to you or commenting on any post(s) of yours. I think that was clear to everyone except you.
     
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