Toyota preius review
Most people have head a ton of these so I will keep it short.. If you want to own one of these and want to get close to the advertised miledge......
YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO CHANGE YOUR DRIVING STYLE....
You cannot think of this as "Normal car" cause its not. I know people can' seem to understand that. Those people should not own one. As soon as they make a plug-in version I will prolly buy one because then it would be practle for me.
The epa caculations recently changed on this car for miledge mostly due to complaints. I believe they are in the 40's city and highway.. I rented this car for 6 days and adveraged 57mpg over 367 miles city/highway mixed about 70/30.
I have done research and studied the best ways to drive these cars and have gotten fairly close to miledge ratings both times I have rented these cars over 300 miles of distance each time.
With all of that said.I believe that there are also some improvements that could be made to this car.
1. The seats SUCK... A LOT... Lol
2. If they are not going to do a plug-in they should offer some driving style options. Like an ev-only button (like in japan) where the car runs up to like 20 MPH on eletric and the motor only comes on to charge the battery.
A "charge" mode that focuses on charging the batteries maybe above where they would normally be if the driver knew a large grade was coming.
A discharge mode that can be used before a long downhill to make room for energy to be stored, this would also give better miledge as it was discharging. When the batteries get to full on a downhill the computer freaks out and has to scrub energy.. It would be eaiser to use that energy for miledge at the top of the hill.
Even a slider that gave preference to charge or ev mode, even if it was only for a 30 second to 5 minute window and then it went back to auto that would be better.
Overall though. The preius was once again a pleasurable and fun rental car.. Needs better seats though, did I mention that?
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YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO CHANGE YOUR DRIVING STYLE....
You cannot think of this as "Normal car" cause its not. I know people can' seem to understand that. Those people should not own one. As soon as they make a plug-in version I will prolly buy one because then it would be practle for me.
The epa caculations recently changed on this car for miledge mostly due to complaints. I believe they are in the 40's city and highway.. I rented this car for 6 days and adveraged 57mpg over 367 miles city/highway mixed about 70/30.
I have done research and studied the best ways to drive these cars and have gotten fairly close to miledge ratings both times I have rented these cars over 300 miles of distance each time.
With all of that said.I believe that there are also some improvements that could be made to this car.
1. The seats SUCK... A LOT... Lol
2. If they are not going to do a plug-in they should offer some driving style options. Like an ev-only button (like in japan) where the car runs up to like 20 MPH on eletric and the motor only comes on to charge the battery.
A "charge" mode that focuses on charging the batteries maybe above where they would normally be if the driver knew a large grade was coming.
A discharge mode that can be used before a long downhill to make room for energy to be stored, this would also give better miledge as it was discharging. When the batteries get to full on a downhill the computer freaks out and has to scrub energy.. It would be eaiser to use that energy for miledge at the top of the hill.
Even a slider that gave preference to charge or ev mode, even if it was only for a 30 second to 5 minute window and then it went back to auto that would be better.
Overall though. The preius was once again a pleasurable and fun rental car.. Needs better seats though, did I mention that?
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