Hatch light?

Correct, innit.

 

All my interior lights come on when I open any door or the hatch, are yours separated ?

 

Strip of LEDs sounds like a good idea, I might do that

 

I'll have to check - once it's dark again. I didn't think so.

 

You're right - I must have been thinking back to my old car, which definitely didn't. But after 20 minutes or so, they all turned off.

 

I think we are all still in the discovery phase with these Gen 4 Prius.

 

Yeah, right!

 

Well, I come from driving Mini's for the past 10 years so I still catch myself saying Boot and Bonnet. A deer decided to end my relationship with my car. Insurance should have totaled it to begin with (original estimate being close to $11,000.00 in damages but decided to sink that much money into it before realizing the turbo went bad... and then totaled it. *sigh* Took them almost 3 months before they decided to do that.

I feel I made a good choice moving to a 'Yota, more specifically a good choice with the Prius. Now to not say boot and bonnet anymore ;-)

 

Those terms make people from the UK, Australia and New Zealand feel “understood” here on PriusChat.

 

Doesn't prove anything, but:
WIKI - "... "trunk" ... the word for a large travelling chest, as such trunks were often attached to the back of the vehicle before the development of integrated storage compartments in the 1930s; while ... "boot" comes from the word for a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach (originally used as a seat for the coachman and later for storage)."

GRAMMARIST - ""Hood" comes from the Old English word hod which means a hood, a soft covering for the head ... The term car "bonnet" is a British term ... comes from the Old French word bonet, which means cloth used as a headdress".

 

Sorry
I didn’t mean for you to get defensive. It was one of my lame attempts at humour.

 

So the bonnet or hood, a soft covering for the head (or in this case the engine), should be called a crash helmet because it's a hard cover.

 

And Tesla calls it a "frunk" since it is just a front boot.

 

Think we'd better avoid the use of helmet on here for fear of wandering into Clarkson territory humour.

 

No problem - I was just intrigued as to how we came up with different nomenclature - it seems that hood & bonnet are both headpieces of antiquity. So thought I'd share the knowledge. If it was something new in 2017 being put on cars, instead of 100+ yrs ago, I wonder what we'd call it. Will full EVs need a bonnet or hood?

 

LSA aka luggage storage area and DFC (no, not Distinguished Flying Cross) aka Driving Force Cover.

 

Would the Tesla then have FSLA (frunk/front boot/bonnet) and RSLA (trunk/boot)?

 

Another car part I found interesting, some service manuals call it a drive shaft and some call it a propeller shaft. Turns out they were using them in boats way before cars so they used the same name. Automotive trivia.

 

Not sure about US, but here (and I suspect UK?), the Prop shaft generally refers to the longitudinal shaft from front gearbox to rear axle (or from engine to rear transaxle in a small number of cases. A drive shaft generally refers to a transverse shaft sending power to the wheels. When it comes to 4WD, AWD, Rear Engine layouts, there are a few different terminologies. And of course, a manufacturer can call it whatever they like.

I think, but could be wrong, that a boat can have a drive-shaft where the motor is mounted inboard.