Electric Range

Is this for driving over 55 mph? I regularly get 6.3 mi/kWh or higher with my Gen 4 in the city, and even on the freeway, I get about 6 mi/kWh if I can keep at 55 mph (57 mph on the speedometer).

 

Yeah it has mixed freeway driving and a fair amount of 80km/h to get there. Some of it is also, on the way home, almost stop and go (40 or 50 kmh, then almost stop but not quite, then back up etc). So that's not exactly super efficient.

 

If you do a short trip and stay a bit with the car on while in park the kWh/100km readout gets higher, so in theory it should also account for the AC and any other electric load.

 

Just to add data points, I'm up to a predicted 45miles on a full battery charge for my PPPXP (Pretty Prius Prime [XSE Premium]), so at least catching up to what is claimed for the HEV. That's with being mindful but not obsessive about driving efficiently. I still get the urge and have a little fun every once in a while!

will

 

Ah, back to summer driving ranges again! I got an honest (no altitude offsets) 50.3 miles using 99% of my battery. So, nothing but round trips. That was without even being obsessive about efficiency until the last 5 miles or so, hoping to finish my last errand before the battery drained. It even included about 10-15 miles of highway driving. Pretty soon it will go back down a bit as AC will be required, but nice to see great numbers in this ideal time. This is even with the XSE Premium with its "Pretty over efficient" tires!

will

 

What size tires do you have?

The difference between the EV range on the car display and the app is due to rounding. I get 54 EV miles but it's probably 53.5 EV miles or less since it doesn't take much distance like 0.2-0.3 miles to drop down to 53 EV miles.

My Toyota app also stopped reporting the charging data, history, EV miles and hybrid miles. The old data still on the app was from May 8th and hasn't been updated.

 

I have the Prime SE with the stock 17” wheels. My tires are the Bridgestone Ecopa. Did you figure out why your Toyota App stopped recording data? Any chance your 1 year free trial is up?

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