First Road Trip

Great to hear. What were temps and air setting?

 

Good to hear HacksawMark! I've only done a half-dozen or so short trips so far, all under 200 miles. Alas all had more 4000 feet of altitude change, so mileage numbers are all over the map! My first serious trip of about 5,000 miles is coming up, so looking forward to seeing what I get with the PPPXP.

Even on the 8,000 mile trip to Alaska this spring, my Gen1 still got 45-ish MPG on interstates and even 50MPG on roads where the speed limit was 55-60 (all roads north of Calgary!) The PPPXP has a pretty high bar to exceed! I'm not hopeful on getting access to too much charging while on the road, so expecting it to be a fairly apples-apples comparison.

will

 

HacksawMark: Not sure if you notice, but for me it is a bit of a shock hearing the engine suddenly after weeks of in-town errands on electric only! Oh yea, there is an engine in there, forgot about it! Even then, it has to be a big hill for the engine to be noticeable. For most of my trips, if it is level or a small hill, I never even notice the transition to HV mode. I want to notice in order to see the "final" Miles/KWh number before the car transitions to MPG stats.

will

 

HacksawMark: yea, I've tried Auto HV/EV mode just a few times and it just seems that it sticks to EV mode until the battery depletes and then it (obviously) switches to HV mode. I haven't yet seen it switch to HV mode before depleting the battery. No different than leaving it on EV mode and having it switch. I'm sure there are differences between the two modes, but so far I haven't come across the scenarios where it does or haven't noticed.

I suspect one difference is if I were to floor it. Pretty sure in auto EV/HV mode that would fire up the engine whereas in EV mode it wouldn't. But I've been a Prius driver for 20 years, floor it??!! What's that?

will

 

Auto HV/EV mode is nerfed in the US version - it basically just gives you access to full power if you floor it, but otherwise always prioritises immediate EV use.

Outside the US it makes "intelligent" decisions about where to use the battery charge based on navigation route information, aiming to deplete the battery by the end of the route.

(Actually, the displayed mode switches automatically, between "Auto EV/HV" and "HV Mode". So maybe you could argue that it's not Auto EV/HV mode doing that, but a higher-level control. But that higher-level control only activates if you've selected Auto EV/HV, programmed a route, and activated Predictive Efficient Drive).