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My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip and continued updating with pics

Discussion in 'Gen 1 Prius Plug-in 2012-2015' started by Paradox, Mar 16, 2012.

  1. cycledrum

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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    Ok, so 53 MPG indicated on road trip and 21 miles EV use from one charge.

    Your fillup indicates just about 70 MPG, wow, not bad. Gage indicates 60 MPG for the tank. What's up there?
     
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    Maybe the dealer topped it off clicking the heck out of it, not sure, I didn't do the first fill up... I'll have to see on the next fill up since with this one once it clicked I stopped filling. I just find it hard to think my dealer clicked and clicked the fill up giving me more than he had to lol.
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    Interesting. 452.7 miles / 6.498 gallons = 69.7 MPG. The display is showing CONS = 60 MPG? :confused:

    Edit: cycledrum beat me to it.

    Electricity consumption is extremely low. 14 kWh / 79 miles = 177 Wh/mile.
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    Yeah, hard to picture dealer doing that :)

    Can you confirm the CONS gage is not some kind of 'MPGe' figure (gas + taking electricity into account)? It is just indicated miles driven / gallons burned, correct?

    btw, that's impressive mileage for the trip, 53 and almost all HV mode. I've seen indications the CONS gage is quite accurate.
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    I'm pretty sure it is just miles driven / gallons burned, at least that's what I thought it was lol.

    Even if off and the 53 is a bit high, for havig 3 people in the car and returning home we had a FULL trunk with 4 cases of water, 2 flats of soda from costco and everything else we bought at the outlets while up there it's a WAY higher number than I was seeing in my 2010 with the 17 inch rims so I'm quite happy. :)
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    This is great information. Anybody that wants to know, can you get better, i.e meaningfully better fuel economy, by having a larger battery pack to capture more regeneration, the answer is an emphatic NO.
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    I wanted to update this thread for today. Here are 2 pics from just my commute today:

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    And here is my total thus far after 612 miles total with 209 in EV and 402 in HV...





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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    A Question, what causes the battery charge symbol to show 12 miles sometimes, other times12.6, or in your case 13.8. Is that a computer estimate, or just the charge the traction battery happened to take that time?
     
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    The computer adjusts the estimated EV distance according to past driving. My dads charges and only shows 11.4 but he doesn't drive as 'efficient' as I do and he has more stop and go driving because of more lights...
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    Keeping the thread updated from time to time...

    I took a trip down to Atlantic City yesterday and returned this morning. Here are the stats from the display for the trip. I'm getting better at guessing when to switch over to EV again at the end of a trip because this time I made it home with only .4 miles to go in EV, last time I had something like 3 I think. (And I forgot to reset my trip odometer until after I drove about 1 mile in EV so the numbers do not account for that 1 EV mile)

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    And here are the lifetime numbers thus far:





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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    did they have a charger there?
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    Lifetime 261 EV miles with 51 kWh, that's 195 Wh/mile indicated, probably 230 Wh/mile from wall! far from EPA 290.
     
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    No bisco, no charger down there. Not even an outlet in the parking garage to sneak a quick charge. There was one where the elevators were but no way I would want to run an extension cord around there lol. I recharged alot of ev range just from switching to ev during braking for lights and while going down hills, so no outlet charging at all during this trip.

    EVO 4G ?.
     
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    for the take they get there, they should charge, wash and detail every car in the place! :)
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    Haha, well they don't get squat from me so I'm happy. We go down more for a show (tickets we get free with the weekday package) and a nice dinner and a walk on the boardwalk. Otherwise we don't even drop a nickel in a machine... I hate gambling, I won't even do lotto or football pools at work.
     
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    same here. i have never been to a show but i see foxwoods has a bunch for us 'boomers'.
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    This is my case as well! I only show 11.5 at full charge every time!

    What can I do to get this number higher? Change driving habits? It showed 17.X when I picked it up but not since.
     
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    Re: My EV/HV mileage for 2 days round trip to work thus far...

    I think its all related to your driving habits. Mine has been steadily going down. A couple weeks ago it was around 12.1. Last week, around 11.9-11.8. This week, its been showing 11.6.

    I bet disconnecting the battery and reconnecting will "erase" that memory. I may need to do that in a couple weeks to install something, so I guess I'll find out.
     
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    That makes sense..... I'm wondering how much I can influence the numbers by having a jaunt around town? My commute has been mainly highway so I can see why the numbers are on the low side...
     
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    I took another road trip today with my wife and son and my parents as well so we had the car pretty loaded down. Came home with the trunk full and still got pretty decent numbers. This time I was able to sneak a full charge (well almost I had like 2.5 miles left) while shopping at a BJs wholesale club. The a/c was on for the whole trip home, getting warmer up here in the NE.

    Here's from just the trip today:

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    And here's my lifetime thus far:

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    And here are two pics I grabbed while waiting for my parents to leave the show they were at:

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