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Originally Posted by Daox
My 2004 Prius seems to be loosing some capacity last time I drove it. The SOC meter goes up and down a lot more than it used to. Still not bad for a 14 year old car.
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In hindsight, I noticed that the day before the lights came on. On the way home from getting the snow tires installed there's a pass that gains about 1700ft in 8 miles. The battery usually gets down to 2 bars about halfway up, but that time it only took a mile or two and I think it hit 1, maybe even 0, bars. It also seemed to deplete quickly after startup; it would go from 5 or 6 bars down to 2 or 3 in less than a mile of driving at 25-30MPH. That's about what you'd expect in EV mode, not with the ICE running.