I'm going to necrobump this thread because I've found what seems to be good info on plug-in versus normal 0-60 times. When reading reviews, times are all over the place. From Toyota's 9.8s, which I'm guessing are just copied/pasted from their figure for a normal Prius, to a little less than 11 seconds with no EV range remaining. From what I can tell, with a full battery, the plug-in is about half a second faster to 60 than the normal Prius, which should be at 9.3s using Toyota's number. This difference comes from the INEL's testing, which is probably better than any automotive mag. They put the 2010 at 11.8s, the 2012 plug-in at 11.3s, and for good measure, the Volt at 10.2s. Their times are higher (likely more accurate too) across the board compared to the manufacturer ratings/auto mags, probably because they aren't trying to sell cars http://avt.inel.gov/pdf/hev/fact2010toyotaprius.pdf http://avt.inel.gov/pdf/phev/fact2013toyotapriusphev.pdf http://avt.inl.gov/pdf/EREV/fact2013chevroletvolt.pdf It's a bit ridiculous to be honest. Motortrend's ~20% difference between the 0-60 of the Volt (8.5s) and the PIP (10.6s) is literally double the difference that INEL measured (10.2s versus 11.3s). Granted, that shouldn't be surprising given that even manufacturer's seem to be inflating the numbers, but it's no quite as bad when the numbers are uniformly inflated.
Haha, yeah. Most of the published 0-60 times are blended too though, and being off by that much is kind of annoying.
