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Old 09-04-2018, 04:53 PM   #62 (permalink)
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90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

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Holy MPG gauges, Batman!!!

Before driving this car, my benchmark for Most Fuel Economy Gauges went to the 1st gen Insight, which had five (5).

Weaksauce!

The Prius Prime must be trying for MPG information overload, because I counted more than a dozen (12) economy-related gauges/screens.


Cornucopia includes ...





Above: The usual Trip A and Trip B gauges. The owners haven't reset their A gauge since getting the car, so that's its "lifetime" MPG so far. I reset Trip B when I picked up the car and it shows 999 MPG because it's all in EV mode.


There's also a "latest trip" display that automatically resets every time you drive the car and gives you a report card at the end of the drive, along with suggestions to improve your eco-driving abilities:





Above: it evaluates your accel/cruise/decel smoothness.




Above: In order to encourage smooth, gradual power application, the car has THREE (3!) "instant" energy use displays, including the one shown in the HUD view (the curved bargraph above the 38.9 km EV range-o-meter. Redundant is redundant!





Above: if you like your instant gauge a bit more numeric than a curvy bar-graphy thing, there's this optionally-viewable gauge to the right of the speedometer. Showing miles/kWh because I'm in EV mode, it would instead show MPG when in hybrid mode.





All Prius owners will recognize the classic "power flow" graphic, which can be useful to show whether you're gliding, or applying slight power/regen.


Or you can just bop the transmission lever into N when you really want to coast and not have to focus on the instruments.




Above: of course, if you're trying to maximize EV range, you'll have one of the 2 redundant range-guess-o-meters displayed (also available in the HUD), so you know how much farther you can go before the ICE is going to fire up.





Above: at the end of your drive, you have all kinds of logged info available to nerd out on, including an "eco diary" of up to 30 days of energy consumption data!


Below are a few more for the data nerd in you.







Above: this one's interesting. It appears to be a "lifetime" display since the car was bought. Although since the car is new, maybe it's going to roll over once you hit 30 days, like the table version shown a few pics earlier.





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