After a few months of ownership, this car seems to amaze me and I will be honest, in the past not too many cars have done that.
My 1 year anniversary with my Prime is coming on December 3rd! By that point, I would have spent $154 in electricity and $22 in gas and have driven about 11500 miles! I love saving fuel costs with my Prime! #1 in Easley,SC
$22 in gas, how? Always EV Mode and your always less then 25 miles? Or have you perfected EV while driving in gas mode?
I have been able to achieve up to 38 miles of EV range and have a 21 mile one way trip to work. Then I am able to charge at work for free. All my driving around town is achieved within one charge. There are times I run around town, come back home and charge again in a couple of hours with my 240V charging station, and then go out again and do more running around on one charge. I make a trip to my parents about 20 miles away and use my charge cord that came with the car and charge at their house. I mostly used the gas I used when I first got my Prime when I didn't have a charging routine in place and a round trip I took to Pigeon Forge TN from my house in Easley SC to see how well it would do in gas mileage in the mountains. The trip through the mountains was 325 miles and I ended up getting 63.9 mpg! #1 in Easley,SC
I always drive in EV mode which is defaulted when the battery is charged. I also always drive in ECO mode with the climate control always in AUTO ECO setting. I never force use the front defrost to avoid the engine to kick on during the cold months. I have the Advanced model to where I use the Entune apps remote climate control ahead of time to run the heat and defrost so it will run on electricity only. I also leave the car plugged in over night so I can use the house current to do this instead of my battery charge. By doing this, when I get to my car, the windows are defrosted and can just use the heat pump to warm the car in the AUTO ECO setting without using gas. Or I can just use the heated seats and steering wheel and not take away from my EV range. I still have the second tank of gas I filled up on February 26th and still have 430 miles until empty. I am going to see if the car actually tells me to use the gas. I filled up with pure gas with no ethanol and added fuel stabilizer. So I should be good for awhile. I have only put about 550 miles on the engine with over 11000 miles driven. I still did the recommended oil change the Toyota recommended even though I only put a few miles on the engine. I may end up doing the same with the second 10k mile oil change with very little mileage on the engine. I am the few, if only person, driven at this high of a EV percentage and this long of a distance. Being a frontier adventure! #1 in Easley,SC
some nice stats there! at ~ 17k miles i had 23 fuel-ups and spent $522 on gas ... with my mpg sitting at 89.5, and EV ratio at ~ 50% ... I still love my Prime!!!
The Prime is better than any regular Prius when it comes to efficiency! I love the Prius Prime! The best car I have ever bought! Looks like you are doing good too! #1 in Easley,SC
i certainly feel that way ... with a 104 mile roundtrip commute 4 days/week, I cannot complain, still getting 43+ miles EV range after charging and am not charging at work as it would cost me ~$2 on average ... commute mpg is ~90+mpg currently, when i had the chargepoint card initially and charged at work it was ~ 130mpg ... i need to do the math for myself at which price of gasoline it will be worth to pay for charging at work
How are you guys getting over 30miled on ev? Do you guys only accelerate within the eco box ? Very impressive !!
I just got my 2020 Prius prime and brought it back to the dealer to have rust proofing and 3M protection applied. In the meantime they gave me one of their best selling 2019 RAV4’s as a loaner car. What a waste of metal and energy. Clunky and inefficient. Loving the prime.
In all seriousness, is "Rust Proofing" still something that gets sold to new cars in your state ? Rob43
Yes. My 2003 Prius rusted out both fenders and I had to cut the rust out and put new metal on them. We have a lot of salt here and a lot of snow.
It’s huge in Ontario as well. Krown is what they use (some oil-based product) as ON uses salt like nobody’s business.
