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EV range compared to Gen4

Discussion in 'Gen 5 Prius Main Forum' started by NHCLCR, Sep 7, 2023.

  1. NHCLCR

    NHCLCR Junior Member

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    All,

    For those of you that had a Gen4 Prime and now a Gen5 Prime, what kind of increase in range are you finding in Gen5.

    Barry
     
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    Sounds hopeful. Just checking to see if the figure pans out in real life.
     
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    There are a few YouTube videos of people getting quite a bit better than advertised EV range. I hope that’s the case for me when I get mine soon :)

    obviously, if you have the pedal to the metal everywhere you go, you can probably expect to get worse than advertised.
     
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    You don't own either, and the EPA estimate for Gen 5 SE is 76% higher than for Gen 4. ;)
     
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    That sounds wrong, but my not owning either has no more relevance than you owning one.
    Do you have a link to the epa estimates?
     
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    I have been getting upwards of 45 miles in pure EV mode with 2023 XSE. So that's a bit higher than the published range. I don't know what Gen 4 gets.
     
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    Must be a small sample to get info from people who have had both. On my 2020 I get about 5 miles per kwh, more like 5.2 usually, all town driving. What the 2023 owners are getting I don’t know. I find mi/kwh plummets on the highway to about or a little above the epa range of 25 miles. If the 2023 people are getting in the mi/kwh, then it can be guessed about what their ranges are. It varies a lot and is very sensitive to driving style.
    I went from a Volt with a larger range to the gen 4. I see no difference in my use on electric between them because I always charge before it’s depleted anyway, almost always. So I am more than happy to have the lighter battery pack and better mpg on gas with the Prime. A higher range in a 2023 to someone like me absolutely makes no difference except in rare instances.
     
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    I’m routinely getting 39 EV miles on my Gen4 2022. City driving.
     
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    (EDIT) 35 EV miles i get in city driving , on highways i usually get 28EV miles with air conditionning at 100KM/H
    Lose 10% with snow tires ....and lose an other 20% in snow .......in sub zero territory ICE kicks in for defrost and heating because the heatpump cannot handle the cold.:eek:
     
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    Gen 4: 25 mi
    Gen 5 SE: 44 mi
    Gen 5 XSE/XSE Plus: 39 mi

    Data on Toyota website.
     
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    thank you, i sit corrected. i forgot that the se got better range and mileage. but i'm still correct about the other two, without owning either :p
     
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    The LE, either hybrid or plug in, is the replacement of the gen4 L Eco.
     
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    How? L Eco and L had the same wheel/tire size. The only difference between LE/SE and higher trims is the wheel/tire size.
     
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    What was L eco range?
     
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    He is talking about mpg.
     
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    Oh, sorry. I thought this thread was about ev range
     
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    But the EV range will somewhat correlate with the mpg on a PHEV.
     
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    So what’s the L eco epa range?
     
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    L Eco is an HEV, not a PHEV.

    You can scale the 44-mi BEV range on Gen 5 SE by mpg, and you get 41 mi for XSE/XSE Plus, which is correct as the 39-mi EPA range within the uncertainty in the least-significant figure crawling in the calculation.