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As you drive, look at the center display screen: Energy Monitor. "Surge" in power will correspond to exactly when the Hybrid battery provides...
I just bought a 2007 Prius. It surges while driving at a constant speed, in or out of cruise control. I feels like depressing and depressing the...
For the vast majority of drivers, Cruise will probably improve l/100km - I remember an article decades ago where Popular Mechanics (or was it...
IIRC, in cruise control when available regenerative braking is insufficient, my Gen 3 brakes by spinning the engine without using fuel in this...
Well, precisely: you are describing the techniques that will "win the (Cruise) score", but have very little to do with the actual fuel efficiency....
...comes on, but turns off once I get below 20. Also the cruise control surges and pulses. I thought maybe the speed sensor was bad so I replaced...
Did you ever find the cause of this? I had exactly the same thing happen on the way home tonight. It's pretty cold (around -20 celcius) and I...
I pay attention to the state of charge (SOC) and expect to hear the internal combustion engine (ICE) contribute more when the SOC is low. This...
One of my 'lessons learned' is to keep a guard-band around 42 mph. I'll slow down to 38 mph or speed up to 46 mph but I try to minimize...
Start: Pause before accelerating after you take your foot off the break, this idle will give you a small but efficient push off. Light pressure on...
I haven't done anything under the hood other than what I mentioned. (Except I put head gasket stop leak in the coolant which solved the misfire in...
I had a startling experience this weekend. I was sitting at a red light for a couple of minutes. When it turned green I accelerated through the...
No, if it loses sight of the lead vehicle below about 45km/hr, it displays something like "NO LEAD VEHICLE- I GIVE UP". And goes away and sulks...
We love our Prius v, sing its praises. But there is one area that has not lived up to my expectations, the adaptive cruise control operation....
Did you have the cruise control on? Could you reproduce the event?
Greetings, I have a 2006 Prius 2nd generation. I've owned it since new, and prior to that had a 1st generation Prius. Recently, I moved from a...
Re: Acceleration Surge Going Over Bump If I'm reading this right - You hit a bump, then begin to brake and find yourself accelerating. That's...
I had an interesting experience last weekend. Since the software update, I hadn't run into any issues with the car surging over bad spots in the...
Precisely what mine does - and it annoys me. It used to annoy me on a work TOYOTA back in 2005 - a Diesel LandCruiser Wagon. I had 3 Cruise...
I read lots of other threads about Gen 2 Prii surging (here and here) which seem to be similar to what we experienced last night. However, I...
