EV Mode/City Drive/Fully Charged...only get 10 miles on electricity.

10.

 

10 is in the ball park. It will vary a lot depending on speed, acceleration, ability to glide or coast to traffic lights, running the air conditioner, weather, and so on. I range from about 9 to 12 miles.

 

Driving style and ambient temp. have lot of influence, If you are new to hybrid driving most probably you will do better in this respect with experience and higher temps.

 

For me terrain is noticeable, to work is 10.1 miles, going back home is 9.9 miles. But going to work, while not all down hill has a definite elevation loss.

Turning around and coming home is obviously getting back up the elevation loss.

The result is full EV to work with 3 or 4 miles of range to spare. Coming home, up, the closest I get to home on full EV is about .25 of a mile. And that was in the heat of summer. In winter, its more like a mile or even two if I need heat defrost etc.

 

Try rebooting.

 

How?

 

Rebooting (disconnecting and reconnecting the auxiliary 12 V battery) will get you nowhere with regards to the actual EV distance you are getting.
All it is doing is erasing all data on your EV drives history which the system collects in order to adjust the EV estimate to your drive habits and reset the estimate to the factory initial default.
It also erases data you have entered (like radio stations etc.) and reset to zero other drive history data like EV ratio screen etc.
It is simply not recommended!

 

there is someone here who said rebooting fools the computer into using all of the battery.

 

You are correct on 90%, however on previous Prii I have owned, 2012 Pip I did it often and also installed a quick switch to facilitate. the Pip only got 11-12 miles and I could boost that to over 14. Does not seem like much now but at the time it was significant. It was not a estimate, these were actual improvement miles. I guess my actual question to YOU Giordano //// Giora is, sorry computer glitch: Have you tried it? What do you personally know about rebooting??? Incidentally rebooting, will often clear electronic anomalies that do often occur on all Electric and Hybrids. But should you be abandoned in the boondocks and the car will not start.......by all means "DO NOT REBOOT" you'll lose all your pre-sets, now you have me crying.

 

Whodat someone Bisco? Sounds like gossip to me. I'm surprised at you, you are normally so technically accurate.

 

it wasn't you andy!

 

I know, it's a failing.

 

Heheh Rebooting. Anything is possible, right?

 

The purpose of Priuschat is for people with actual experience to assist people that may have lesser experience. I have rebooted many times, not the 2017 yet. It always worked. If you search, you'll find many comments on the subject, most of them NEGATIVE, and most of them from people that have NEVER done it,
So search and find your own answer. Good Luck

 

Only if you are equipped with the correct mmmodem!

 

Thanks Andy, 90% is quite a high score.
I am curious about this quick switch you have installed, should be a massive one being able to handle very high amperage at times while being on. Any photo?

 

They have them in most of our hardware stores and they can handle the larger current draws of the Ice autos, physically about 1/2 fist size. They are called, " 12V cutoff switch " sorry I can't provide a picture as I sold my 2012 PIP. The limiting current factor is the wiring and the fuse, for the battery. On my 2005, that was 100 amps. Normal operation does not use large current draws anyway. After Gen 2 technical information has not been available. The same thing can be done by just disconnecting the +\ - cable for about 10 seconds.
Hope this helps. What's the temp in Israel, here it's in the 90s around 1700.

 

I have done it twice during the years, no reboot intended but performed, in both cases I saw no change in actual AER (driving my routine route morning after). Others report the same so my recommendation to the O/P is not to do it for the purpose of increasing range.
Since you agree there is no change in usable HV portion of battery as a result of rebooting and assuming all other factors (road, drive style, weather, traffic etc.) remain the same, how do you explain the big jump you see in actual AER after rebooting?