How accurate are Dr. Prius Life expectancy tests?

Discussion in 'Prime Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by sylvaing, Jul 27, 2023.

  1. sylvaing

    sylvaing Senior Member

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    Reason I ask is after running it on my 2017 Prime, it gave me a 101.54% capacity left. Great if it's accurate but I have my doubts.
     

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  2. Peng Xiao

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    I used my BlueDriver OBDII scan tool, “Hybrid Battery Pack Remaining Life” is 86.3% on my 2018 with 61k. I believe other readers can do it too.
     
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    i don't know if there's a way to test them, but there are quite a few postings here of odd results
     
    #3 bisco, Jul 29, 2023
  4. sylvaing

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    So today I drove to work in EV only mode. Temperature was a cool 17C. Distance is 25.5 km and 12 km of them is at highway speed (115 km/h for me since the limit here is still 100 km/h). Once I left the highway, I was just two km short (was at 26 km instead of 28 km) of the remaining battery left, which I find is pretty decent for driving at that speed.

    Once arriving at work, I had 12 km left in the battery.

    I guess that confirms the rating given by Dr. Prius IMHO.
     
    #4 sylvaing, Aug 1, 2023
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    What do you get doing the simple/static test, the one that looks like the attached?
     

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