XLE and battery mileage

it depends on acceleration, speed, number of stops and starts, climate and topography.

on level ground in mild weather with no a/c slow acceleration, no stops and around 20 mph, you might get 2 miles

 

If the car doesn't have a plug, don't worry about the EV range. All the energy will come for gasoline either way.

The EV mode is there as convenience for when you have to move the car out of the garage to get the lawnmower out, move it it a different parking spot, etc. So the engine doesn't fire up for maybe a 100 yards of driving.

 

Good for arriving somewhere quietly, or leaving somewhere quietly, or using up some charge as you reach your destination cos you know you can recharge while warming up next time.

I believe this is actually a feature all the non-plugin Priuses have over the plugins. As far as I know, once the "proper" EV range has run out you can't request the temporary limited EV mode on a plugin, so you can't do the same thing a normal Prius would do.

Of course, a plug-in Prius should rarely be in the "no EV charge" situation, and you could avoid it by planning ahead and using the charge mode. But still...

 

Also worth noting that, at least based on my experience with my non-plugin XLE AWD thus far, my battery is never full. It pretty much always hovers between 40-60%. The higher the battery gets, the more the car will want to use EV mode, and the lower it gets, the more it keeps ICE running to get back up to that ~60% figure. But I've never really seen it make any effort to actually go any higher than that. It seems to keep a hefty buffer zone in case you end up doing a lot of downhill driving or something, so that it always has room for regen.

Point being, whatever the figure for operating in EV mode on a full battery, you'll probably never actually get that in reality because it doesn't actually make an attempt to keep the battery full.

 

How do you view the % level of the battery? I looked in the manual but didn't see any reference showing how to check it.

 

Just an estimate based on the gauge level shown in the energy monitor. It rarely ever leaves the 3-5 bar range. Since there are eight bars, each bar is about 12.5%.

 

The EV range in a non-plug in hybrid is basically what you get if you would somehow force the car to run just on the hybrid battery (about the only way you could do this is to do what some of the posters have done (I guess to display their intelligence levels) and run out of gas). From what I remember the range is about what the OP stated. The non plug in Prius will switch between EV mode and ICE mode as the hybrid battery charge dictates.
And for what it’s worth my hybrid battery frequently reaches nearly full capacity.
In reality that range is not really relevant for most people.