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I'm at about 80,000 miles with practically no oil use observed on 12,000 mile oil change intervals. Then again, 3,600 (30%) of those miles are EV with the engine off. I'm also avoiding wear from from the harshest driving conditions by using EV mode; the short trips where the engine doesn't come up to full operating temperature.
I've only used B-mode once in my PiP while coming down from Yosemite. I was able to fully recharge about 3 kWh back into the battery and still had a lot of downhill to go. B-mode uses engine compression to bleed off speed, which reduces the burden on the brakes.
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