So groceries don't fit in the Prime cargo area?

OK, so it can hold all that stuff. Point made. But when you have it loaded completely like that, and then fully charge it up by jamming all those extra electrons in the batteries below, won't that deck rise way up and push all that food through the curvy hatch glass?

 

Can also hold 26 bags of wet mulch. 38lbs dry, maybe 45lbs wet, close to 1200lbs of mulch in one trip which was all I needed. Also loaded up 12 6ft arborvitae trees and planters the previous weekend, also all inside the Prius. Have put an entire deck's worth of lumber inside the Prius to build a deck including the support beams. Also fit a bath-tub in there, the entire thing new in a box. On another occasion 2 palettes of thick slate tile, close to 1800lbs worth. The Prius is a work-horse. And everything inside stays inside. Doesn't get rained or snowed on like the idiots with the pickup trucks.

 

did you get a prime, 2k?

 

lee, can you load 2 sets of golf clubs in there please?

 

Nice pics and where there is a will there is a way. Oh, you have an M & M on the seat in the back. Don't let it melt on the seat.

 

That doesn't look like the tail of a Prime.

The issue here is Prime vs regular Liftback. The Prime's reduced cargo volume, and load capacity 155 pounds lower than that of the Liftback, will be figuring into my upgrade decision.

 

same here. bringing all our groceries home without bags is not an option, i'm married, and hope to stay that way.

 

So how many bales of hay can you get in it?....an important statistic out here.

 

Did a similar post for my Energi a few years ago. The lower portion really helps out more than I thought. I only put lightweight items above on the pull out cargo cover. Weekly shopping for a family of four.








Another trip.

 

Isn't a Gen2 Liftback rated for 5 bales?
That thread was very long ago, so I could be mis-remembering.

 

i bet it holds a lot of ping pong balls. i never use bags for them.

 

I keep thinking of the time our son bought one of Home Despot's bigger barbecues. The box barely pushed in, it was high enough to be touching the roof of the hatch opening, firmly. Everybody put their backs into it, and in it went.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor, lol.

 

i suspect toyota is caught up in the 'if we make every generation a little smaller, we can eek out another mpg' thought process.
a couple more generations, and they'll be an inch off the ground and no rear headroom at all.

 

They say that "real" cowboys know this kind of thing.

 

All I got, some bamboo bales. Still lotsa room:

 

I've stuffed plenty of stuff into the Sonic, that by today's standards is a subcompact.

The issue I have over the raised floor isn't over the less space it leaves for packing stuff. It is over how it shows how little thought Toyota gave to packing the traction battery into the car. Compared to the Prius Two ECO, which is the fair one because both don't have a spare tire, the Prime loses 6 to 7 cubic feet of cargo space.

That is as much space as the C-max Energi loses, but it is Ford's first offering of a PHEV. The Prime is Toyota's second offering. On top off that, the C-max started as an ICE model. Starting as a hybrid, the Prius platform should be better at hiding large batteries.

With experience, and examples from competitors to study, Toyota should have done a better job. Frankly, for a company of their resources and stature, Toyota did a half-assed job in regards to packing the Prius Prime's traction battery.