What is your miles/kWh (total average electricity consumption) on the "Drive Monitor 2"

I am at 5.2 miles/kWh. Bought the car 3 weeks ago (fantastic vehicle!). I do a fair amount of EV highway driving and I can eke about 38 miles of pure EV range under those conditions.

Question:
Does this number also take into account the consumption during EV while in HV mode? As a hypermiler who uses P&G extensively (even in the highway), I'm afraid the number might be inflated because when I am in EV, I am purely gliding.

I can get ~38 miles of range purely EV (comes out to 4.3 mi/kWh with the 8.8kWh). So the 5.2 is really suspicious and I suspect it also takes into account the times I glide. So it would be getting "subsidized" by gas in a way.
Thoughts?

 

Mkay good to know. Thanks!

 

Please take a look at my Prius Chat post from Sept 4, 2018:

Energy Consumption: A Data Point | PriusChat

My calculations are based on actual kWh used to charge the vehicle as measured at the electric panel serving the EVSE in my garage.

It worked out to 0.209 kWh per mile which translates to about 4.8 miles per kWh. (Given my high local electric rate, the electric cost per mile is about the same as the gasoline cost per mile.)

My driving pattern is primarily short trips in city traffic and the calculation was made during the month of August 2018 during which the air conditioning would be in use virtually all of the time. And keep in mind that my figures are based on kWh delivered to the vehicle and do not take into account any losses in the Prime's charging circuits or battery.

Obviously, this can become a very theoretical (and theological) discussion.[/QUOTE]

 

My lifetime is 13kWh/100km - 4.8miles/kWh so far..

 

Haven't checked mine in a while. I can't remember what is was last time I checked but it was definitely lower.

 

Ha! Thanks. It was taken the day of the post. Looks like I'm only driving about 400 miles a month, a big difference from my 72 mile rt from early 2017.

 

Mine finally changed recently. It went from 5.1 to 5.0.

 

Just keep plugging in and driving!

 

Yeah, I can relate to the same experience so much so I do not get bothered with it anymore. More often than not, the in-car charger remains in that state for a few minutes before it finally begins to quickly ramp up to amps to max rate.

Anyhow, the days are definitely getting shorter and the temps in my area have begun to slip downward in my area.
As sad as it is, at least now I know what the upper limit for my average miles/kWh looks like.
Now, to find the lower limit...

 

It's rare that I don't get the battery cooler message. LOL! Somehow, I'm managing close to 30 miles EV even though highs are still in the 90s here. Yesterday the GOM started out at 32.X with AC and 35.x w/o AC. But with the 10" of rain in three days, that helped moderate temperatures. We're back in the 90s again, though. I am SO ready for winter to see what this will do, although I suspect that when I got it in March was probably the best temperatures.

 

After playing with the A/C settings, lights and big screen I'm getting over thirty miles in the morning and around twenty-seven in the afternoon. That is enough for full EV round trip commute. I just need to not be so lazy in the evening and plug the car in for the morning commute!

 

If you haven't already done it, just schedule the charges and then you can plug in when you get home and just forget about it till you leave in the morning. One thing that helped me is getting an L2 EVSE for at home that I can leave in place so I don't have to mess with the OEM EVSE which I take with me to work. Not having to coil and uncoil the cord makes a big difference for me anyway.