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Jerry's Evolving Thoughts on "new-to-me" Prime Premium

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  1. Prodigyplace

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    Remember I still have year 2000 rubber on my pickup truck. It looks OK too. :oops::whistle:
     
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    That is just a bit higher than our 24/7 rate during winter here in Nebraska.
     
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    I've pulled my rear headrests off and store them in the back. When I get a passenger back there I pop one on. I think in the three months I've had the car the rear seats have been up for about three days. The rest of the time they are flat.
     
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    LOL, that’s what I did when I bought my PiP, it is a rare animal in Canada (only ~400 sold over 4 years). In 2016, I negotiated over the phone with a Toyota dealer in Sault Ste Marie on the 2-year old PiP, settled on a price, then took a $200 flight to go pick it up. It was an 8 hour drive home from Northern Ontario. It was fun adventure, had never been up there.
     
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    This is what I do with my PiP. I have a spare from my Gen 2 which I keep in the garage, and I am also a CAA (AAA) member. If I am travelling, I just give up a bit of trunk space and throw the spare in there. If something happens locally, I would just get towed home, if I cannot simply add air to get me there (I also carry an electric 12v pump).

    My last flat was about 17 years ago, and that one I noticed it in my driveway in the morning before leaving the house, so I was able to address it right away (which BTW would be the same here, even if you don’t carry it all the time). I have never been stranded for a flat tire over nearly 1M KM over 25 years of driving, so I don’t stress about it too much. Getting a flat is statistically a very low probability event (YMMV of course based on the quality of roads you drive), particularly if you are a focused driver who watches for potholes and the like. ;)
     
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    Hi Jerry, I echo these comments, thank you for taking the time to share your discoveries and learnings. It is particularly interesting for me as I am in a similar situation, owning a PiP and considering the upgrade to a Prime in the future. I appreciate the real world comparison, particularly things like comparable road noise and comfort compared to a PiP, which would be a difficult for a reviewer to accurately judge, if they were not a full time driver of the previous vehicle, and be aware of the nuances. So, thank you. :)
     
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    That is quite a trip. Too bad this forum does not have audio.
    It would be humourous to hear US users try to pronounce "Sault Ste Marie" :D
     
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    A few years ago, we drove my wife's '07 up from Tampa through Sault Ste Marie and then on down to Severn Falls in the lake and camping area north of Toronto to see friends. It was a pretty drive across Ontario. Then we went to Niagara Falls for a couple days before heading home.

    You're welcome. Thanks for the affirming words. I was just thinking yesterday, after reading one of those reviews where they have the car for a few days and drive it maybe 270 miles or so, "They don't know anything about that car yet!" And you know what? I just kicked myself. I have a dB meter app on my phone. Had I known I was going to upgrade, I'd have noted the actual noise level on I-95 in GA (IT WAS LOUD!!) and then gone back with the Prime to compare.

    The PiP was a terrific car in lots of ways. But it did have its irritations. Road noise being the primary one. Prime is a significant improvement in that area. I don't think I've had a quieter car, but it's not a luxury ride by any means. And then the EV range. It's as nearly perfect for my driving patterns as I could ask for. It's two miles short of getting me to church and back, but I can usually plug in there. Work is only 9.5 miles so I can make a round trip plus one way the next day. So far, I have 650 miles on this tank and the gas gauge still shows full.

    "It would be humourous to hear US users try to pronounce "Sault Ste Marie"
    My friends in the UP of Michigan say, "soo saint marie," or just "the soo."
     
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    Yup. But try & sound it out phonetically o_O:ROFLMAO:
     
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    Hey, I was born in Sioux City, Iowa. There's another way to spell the same sound.

    Reminds me of the guy who wanted to give his dog an unusual name. So he named it, "Pheidaux." :eek:
     
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    Some interesting history here. Apparently there is a same named city in Michigan that split off during the War of 1812.

    Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - Wikipedia
     
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    I didn't know they used to be one city. Interesting.
     
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    I just had a weird thought. If it ends up taking me six months to a year to run a tank of gas, what would that do to the effectiveness of something like Techron? :whistle:

    That's hypothetical, of course, since I will be taking vacations with this car.
     
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    You might want to put some Stabil in, especially with ethanol in the fuel.

     
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    Ethanol?
     
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    It's all alcohol, right ;)
     
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    Corn liquor. :ROFLMAO:
     
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    I'll be burning off this tank and several more starting in about 5-1/2 weeks when we drive out west on vacation. If the Smokies were amazing in a PiP, what will the Rockies be like in a Prime? You Colorado Prime owners already know and I can't wait to find out.
     
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    I am increasingly pleased with the efficiency of this thing for my driving pattern. I just went back and looked at records for the PiP. My miles/kWh were pretty consistently a little under 4 miles/kWh. Never as high as 4.1. I don't think the Prime could get that low if I tried.
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    The average for today was to and from work, 9.5 miles each way with A/C on just in the afternoon and really slow traffic on the way home for a couple miles till it opened up. Yesterday was 17.5 miles each way on State Road 54 with a charge at each end. It is mostly 55-60 mph limit with lots and lots of stops, sometimes as many as 18 stops. Looks like my dash has a couple smudges. I should try to remember to do something about that. :whistle:


    Coming home today, I started with a full charge. I didn't use much!
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