77+ MPG with Ease

From 70mph, you should be able to get all 8 bars if you brake for a longer period than you have. For example, you can glide down that slight incline before your exit (right around in the video when you were trying to get the engine off. Once you have it off, I noticed you were coasting. Try to glide instead, use the incline to maintain speed and then try to fill the CHG bar so that you don't have to use your brake pads for that right turn. If there's no traffic behind, maybe even start braking several 10s of feet before you enter the off-ramp.

Also, great tip near the end about learning your commute and figuring how to end your trip to benefit the start of the trip.

One thing I noted, because you have the NiMH battery and most owners will end up with the Li-Ion battery, is that you were driving with the HSI bar in the Eco Hybrid area (within the 1st half of the Hybrid System Indictaor) and using the NiMH battery. This is a big change for the Gen 4 with the improved efficiencies of the electric motor and inverter and so forth (all that 20% improvement in energy loss that Toyota talks about). I wouldn't do that in the my Gen 2 or 3 because I wouldn't be able to sustain that entire length of your drive that you did in EV mode because the battery would drain and the engine would come on to recharge. The fact you were able to do that section in EV mode and still end up at work with 3 bars remaining is amazing!

 

For a moment there I was thinking, "since when did a Toyota Echo work for a home automation jobs?"

 

Not the Echo hatchback, but you did get the Echo sedan & coupe from 2001 to 2005 before the Yaris sedan (née Toyota Belta) arrived to replace it for 2007 after a 1 year hiatus. The Yaris Hatchback arrived in 2006.

 

Wow.

lol. Probably doesn't require 12 Prii