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Originally Posted by Sovereign
So far, I just bought a car :P I don't have shop manuals or electrical diagrams either. My current goal is to get as much out of it as possible without modding it (yet) since I don't have the money to spend on those types of things (yet). I'm just going off the base Toyota instrumentation. I'd hope that's more accurate than my father's "40MPG = 25MPG" Chevy Impala's fuel monitor.
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No problem, you are in good hands!
A trick I used when we got our first Prius, 2003 model, was to fill-up twice a week, Friday evening and Sunday evening. This let me separate the daily work commute mileage from the longer, weekend drives. It let me find the vast majority of mileage tricks without confusing what works on longer drives with what we have to do to earn a living. <grins>
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Originally Posted by Sovereign
It has two cigarette style power outlets up front but I haven't really read the owner's manual enough to know whether the second one is special (I did see something about household current style inverters in HHs somewhere).
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My first Prius modification added a 1kW modified sine-wave inverter, originally used with my wife's 2001 Echo. In the Prius, we had some tornadoes in North Alabama and had:
- 112 hours - four days, six hours of Prius power
- two gallons per day - total of 8 gallons for the power outage
- no engine noise and 1% of carbon monoxide
Heck I ran an extension cord to my neighbor so they had lights, TV and cell phone charger.
A lot of folks don't realize what a sweet solution hbrids are for emergency power. Something to consider.
Bob Wilson