Who here has filled their MFD bar graph completely?

Coming down the hill is easy to do. I've done it coming down the grapevine north of L.A. It drops from 4k' to 1.8k' in about 5 miles. During that time I had to brake and the battery topped out at 8 bars then engine braking kicked in. After that then it drops another 600' in 2 miles. During that time, I'm driving in EV only at 65mph since the battery is fully charged and it needs to burn off that excess charge.

Normal driving is impossible without PHEV. This is the best I could do in normal driving condition. http://priuschat.com/forums/attachm...ions/27725d1295677711-new-enginer-kit-a01.jpg

 

It would be a bit more helpful to include some more details. Did you mean the full bars were obtained only during the downhill part of the trip? I am guessing so, seeing the average MPG being much less than 50. Long time ago someone (Bob Wilson?) has already devised a scheme to get full bars without much driving at all, just some combination of low speed driving and stopping of which the details I don't remember now.

 

Do you happen to remember what the approximate instantaneous mpg was going up the hills at that speed? Pure curiosity.

 

I did it three days in a row driving back from Monument CO to Sedalia CO on CO Hwy 105. I took pictures of the screen with my cell phone but couldn't figure out how to get them onto my computer. It is a country road where the speed limit is 50 mph and no traffic. The road is about 30 miles long. It isn't level but is relatively flat and winding with low, rolling hills. I guess that, over all, the road was decling in elevation but I've driven it both ways many times and can't say that for sure. That kind of driving must just be in the Prius happy zone.

 

I did it a couple times in my 2003. The first time it happened I about shit my pants because I thought I beat the Prius and won! What I would have won, I have no idea. Maybe it was too many video games growing up?

That's cool though. I love seeing the little greenmobiles!

 

I had in better days when my beloved prius used to work properly.

 

Brook side, do you even actually own a prius? Because in Canada with a consumption screen graph in litres/100 km a screen of full bars would indicate a very badly operating prius indeed.(a half hour consuming over 10 litres per 100 km)

 

I thought the topic meant regen on every bar? Did I misunderstand this topic?

 

Four years driving my Prius, and I don't even know how to read my MFD bar graph.

 

I can read the graph - it's the topic i misunderstood.

Thanks for the insult.

 

Until your post, I'd assumed the bar graph display was the same everywhere. Obviously, I never thought it through. It is perfectly obvious that MPG and liters per 100km are inverse functions (using different scales).

Given this fact, and the way the bar graph operates, I can't imagine any Canadian Prius owner lamenting how he used to fill the bar graph completely but can't any more.

 

I've filled it with all regen. Very satisfying!

 

Yeah this is an unfair contest for us L/100km guys!

It's roughly the same for us as filling the MFD with bars all less than one quarter height (2.5 L/100km), but that just doesn't have the same dramatic impact.

 

I wasn't responding to you or commenting on any post(s) of yours. I think that was clear to everyone except you.