Hello i just made a account on priuschat because i want to buy a prius in 2008 and the main goal is to make it more fuel efficient. things like adding a bat. pack and turbo so i am looking for a 2004-5 prius now also thinking about importing one from the us because of the low dollar to euro for us europeans. i am wondering if anyone now if the mpg/mph can be changed to km/l and kmh
Yes, you can change the Mph to Km/h no problem. Flick of a switch. Same with the MFD. Interesting thought. If you got a Prius for 18k, that would run you around 12k in Euro's..... Freight.... I would guess, around 2k.... Might be a winning proposition. Not sure how easy it is to register a vehicle in Europe under these circumstances. I don't know where you live, but I imagine that the country you're from is going to want to get some tax benefit out of it....
flick off a switch? i am looking al over internet for this info and can not find it? what must i do to switch this? some hidden menu you can tell me about?
This will be a "mission Impossible". The US car is not homologuated for European use. You will have to change lights, add fog-lights, change the speedo (EU cars must have a 5% optimism) and pass all the tests. There are EU companies that will do all the hastle for you, but the service will cost over 5000 €. Think: the Camry Hybrid is 24.000 $, in germany you can have one for 37.000 €.
ok buth this is not because of the changes needing to be made. there are a lot of tax reasons wy cars in europe are lot more exp.
That's only on the US/Canadian cars. The European ones have a rheostat in lieu of our km/h-mph button.
ok most importend when i import a prius from us or canada there is a switch to put in from mph to kmh? and when you import e prius from europe to usa then you have a problem in my case from us to eu .. there is no problem? anyone a picture of this switch?
Yeah we have the switch, so it's not a problem. It's just that small button next to the hazard light button next to the clock. (or in other words, next to the ODO/Trip ODO button on your European-spec car).
ok thx only will this also make the mph go to kmh? on the spedo? looked it up on internet funny that i looked over this. US version
Yes, speedo only. The odometer will read in the units it came in for that country (miles for US, kilometres for Canada).
Also the fuel economy will stay in mpg, it doesn't switch to l/100km or even km/l (Japanese style I think). So a Canadian Prius would probably be better than a U.S. one. There are some used Prius in Europe, I would think it would be easier to find one there. I haven't heard of a turbo option for the Prius. Extended battery packs (for PHEV) are still experimental, not available for consumers in the U.S. yet, but I think there's a place in England that might be doing that.
