Pips in traffic

nice! do they sell them there? we do, and i don't see that many.

 

I have seen many PiP around here. If not in the traffic, I saw them parked. Never seen them charging though, as there are no charging stations.

 

Aside from a PiP used by a dealer to ferry passengers around, and perhaps a rare parked company fleet car, I don't think I've ever seen a PiP in the wild here in Toronto. I'm sure they're around, but they're certainly not common.

And that PiP used by the dealer to ferry passengers around is my car now, so I won't be seeing that company one anymore.

And yes, they do sell them here, and everywhere else in Canada, but they almost never have them at the dealer on display or on the lots for test drives. Since my dealer did have their company PiP available for sale, it was thus also available for a test drive, but ironically I didn't bother test driving it. I just bought it after checking out the interior and playing with all the functions. I figured it'd just drive more or less like any other Prius Gen 3, and I had already spent time test driving those.

 

I don't recall spotting one, but then: they're not that distinctive are they: just some badges and the charging door? Hard to spot on the road.

I saw a first gen Honda Civic Hybrid (we had second gen) the other day, had to stop and stare. And first gen Honda Insight: see one of those, I have to stop and pay homage.

 

Yeh I loved that little car as well Mendel. Hal

 

They're pretty easy to spot except for the front. The doors handles are grey. The trunk garnish is grey and the tail lights are almost all clear. The front doesn't have the piano black front lip, it's just black plastic. Overall, in my opinion, it's a downgraded look from the regular Prius especially the front lip. All that grey hardens back to the old days of lower trim models not having black non painted door handles and bumpers.

 

I've only seen one in the Sacramento area. Mine sat on the lot for 6 months before I purchased it. The 10 to 12 miles on EV are perfect for me but not so much for commuters to downtown Sacramento from the outlying areas.

 

They do look a bit different, but also in Ontario they also have different green licence plates as opposed to the regular blue ones, although the green licence plates are not mandatory.

 

I see them quite often in soCal. They look kind of cool.

 

I wish we had license plates like that instead of the ugly decals we have now. There's still plenty of Prius with yellow HOV decals on them. My brother would rather leave them there than risk lifting up the paint or doing manual labor.

 

Up here you can (at least normally) take your plate with you, if you trade-in, so....: when you trade up to that escalade or hummer.... ;o

 

I'm not sure if Berkeley, CA is the Prius capitol or green car capitol but I could drive down a neighborhood street and see 5 or more Prius cars (C, V, plug-in, 3rd gen, 2nd gen) and (a Leaf and maybe a Tesla).

 

Haven't confirmed this, but I would assume you can't port your Ontario green plate from a PiP to a Hummer. No big deal though, since new plates are only $30.

You can port your standard blue plates from a Hummer to a PiP though. Furthermore, the vanity plates are blue plates. There are no green vanity plates in Ontario. If you want to get a vanity plate with an overused word like REVOLT, you'll have to get blue plates.

 

BC's made a couple of mis-steps of late, with license plates. Here's an example of our regular plate:



But to honour the 2010 Winter Olympics for a while they issued these:



On the road, especially in bad weather or at night, it's nigh impossible to read, especially at a glance.

Now we're running out of combinations. Instead of just adding a letter (for example, like Ontario), they switched it up, are now issuing plates with number/letter combo on both sides:



I do not know if it's just to my limited brain cells, but I've got more trouble remember the above. Coupled with confusion: is it a letter "O" or a zero??

 

Even if there were charging stations in NJ, wouldn't the laws there require a station attendant to charge it for you? Sorry...could not resist.

 

There are a lot here in Sacramento !!!! I see them every day !!!!

I am only at 16% EV mode though, as my daily commute is 65 miles and then I drive a lot of places for fun. After 9 months, I have 24000 miles on mine !

 

I'm 20 miles up I80, I guess that makes a big difference in interest. My car sat it Roseville Toyota for 6 months, lonely and unwanted

 

Heh, I own the car and wasn't aware of that. I just assumed that the Tech package also has LED DRLs but I didn't actually bother checking. I'll have to look more closely.