I'm looking at buying a Prius and test drove a Canadian Classic Prius '01 the other day and I noticed the following strange behaviour of it's fuel consumption bar graph: When the car is stationary/under electric power only, the L/100km bar is all the way up (seemingly indicating a very high fuel consumption), but when the ICE is running, the bar goes down to whatever its calculated consumption rate is.. Obviously this is a bug right? Certainly in a US miles per gallon display the bar should be high in the situation described (you're going any number of miles bug using no fuel- ie, divide by zero = infinity), but the metric version is the other way around (zero divided by anything = 0), so the bar should read zero... This does not appear to affect the average consumption number, so I assume that some programmer simply messed up the bar graph display code?? Is there a software update to fix this? Do all the newer models ('02-current) still behave this way??
This is odd. I've never heard of that occurring before. Are you certain the engine was off when the bar was full? What does it say on the Energy Monitor?
