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Originally Posted by Gasoline Fumes
I find hypermiling in a Prius frustrating. The car makes too many decisions for me.
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It takes practice to be mindful of what the car wants to do and be able to make it bend to your will within those constraints. Little things like coming to a complete stop for a few seconds with a warmed up ICE running to allow it to enter the full hybrid stage can make all the difference. To be honest, you're probably almost better off driving it like a normal automatic and not trying to force the car to do something if you don't have the time to become familiar with how the car behaves. It was designed to get good mileage when driven like a normal car, trying to hypermile it the wrong way can clash with that programming.
I usually just set the cruise if I'm going over ~40MPH with no stops coming up. Like roflwaffle said, below ~40MPH (where the ICE can turn off) is where you can really play.