Please change forum name to Prius PHV

PHV is the official name, as clearly confirmed by the type listed on Toyota's website.

In Japan, they actually get a "PHV" emblem on the car itself.

Here, many people like the "PiP" shorthand reference. That doesn't exactly lend itself toward any type of plug-in identifier, similar to what HSD does now.

The confusion PIP causes baffles me as to why/how it still lives on. For many years, that's what we've been calling the units of measure on the fuel-guage.

 

PiP = Plug in Prius

Easy to type and with a context anyone knows what you are referring to.

This is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

 

Not utilizing a naming standard is a problem in the waiting... especially when the audience expanded beyond the "anyone" currently reading this. Think about a vastly expanded audience, less informed, and years later.

Waiting to react is not a trait we embrace either. Consider all the other hybrid abbreviations of the past, didn't we learn anything from that?

 

There won't be much confusion HERE, but we are contributing to inconsistencies elsewhere.

And what are those of us adhering to the standard being told/asked to do here?

Keep in mind package identification became a problem later, but was dismissed as a non-issue initially.

 

Knowing that some start their plug-in quest from Toyota, then proceed to search the web for the reference they first saw, it would be helpful to match that...


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i hear phev, phv and pev? all confusing to me. volt, leaf, pip, i do not know.

 

For the newcomers, get used to the PiP in PC (Prius Chat), we all know at what we are referring to

 

I will never call the PIP the PHV for the same reason I will never call my HyCam a TCH - PIP and HyCam are far more fun, alliterative, engaging and descriptive than those other straight boring acronyms, IMHO.

 

If our audience was exclusively first-timers, that would work. But for those coming from or still on the outside, searches with "Prius PHV" will be much more likely and will obviously be more fruitful than "pip" or a "plug-in" prefix/suffix. So if you want threads & posts to be seen beyond the confines of the members here. So for the sake of adding value to the forums & threads...

 

Toyota website use Prius plug-in. I would bet big bucks that most people looking for PIP info use plug in prius or prius plug in as their search term. Only the people here would even know that Toyota sometimes likes to use PHV.

 

I thought technically it is a PHEV?

Nexus 7 ? 2

 

Actually, it is only used by Toyota for the basic introduction. The rest is referred to by PHV.

Look at what the popular media does. Same thing. After the intro, it too is PHV.