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Hi nh7o, I'not sure there is actually a "sweet spot". Like you, I have a hilly, snaky kind of a commute for about half of the journey. The...
My '06 charges up to about 82.5% pretty much daily, when it starts to actively discharge. I live at the bottom of a 900ft steep hill, so it gets a...
I find driving with the heating turned up quite high - like 28 to 30 deg C - forces the engine to deliver hot water, in doing so, needs to keep...
This topic almost passes for a "sticky". Great explanation though! I learned something today. I didn't realize the speedo & odometer weren't...
I'd use the Compact Fluorescent Light eco bulbs. Only a few Watts to run one - or a few - of these. Get the "warm white" ones though. The...
Do you know if this would work on a Japanese model Prius? I have an '06 (Actually really late Dec '05, but '06 spec).
What I do is run the vents with the A/C on, but put the vent on the windscreen & footwell mode, then turn the heat right up & manually control the...
Maybe installing a block heater (to electrically heat the engine) would be an option for you. The car won't burn all the gas heating up, just in...
Well, that's an eye opener! My annual spend on petrol (gas if you're in the US) would have been about NZD6,000, as I have quite a long commute by...
What's the price of power in Colorado? Does it vary much in different states? Ours is about 17.5c/kWh... But then gas is pricey too...
Still pretty damned good!
How much electricity consumed from the grid though? $$?
Hi John, I'm afraid there's only one road, and it is quite a climb for the first few k's in the morning. I haven't tried the battery out yet to...
Hi Uart, Thanks for that explanation. These are things that aren't really in the manual either I suspect.
Yep. I'll get Torque when the time comes. 0.3L/100km is pretty impressive! I'm doing about 4.4L/100km, and i thought that was pretty good. What's...
Quite a cool link. Nice to see a profile of my commute. The green forest part of the map pretty much matches the big lump in the profile. Now the...
It hits "all bars" about 1/3 of the way down, with about 600 ft of elevation to go, so may be more than 80% by the time I get to the bottom... I...
I'm a 2006 prius owner and interested in the whole debate over which is more economical etc. What is the price of electric power where you...
Hi Agent J. Well, that's that then. I started trying to get the state of charge of the batteries down a bit so the regen has something to do on...
I'm picking you'd have been nursing through those last 40km! I did that once too, but not in a Prius. I knew it was getting dire when it started...
