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I've been observing the RAV4 Prime and I am pleased to find out that it has a lot of safety features, including Blindspot Monitoring, and Rear-Cross Traffic Warning and Braking System, both of which are optional in many other vehicles as of now. Another safety feature that is optional on the XSE Trim is Front and Rear Parking Assist with Automated Braking (PA w/ AB). I'm also glad that the RAV4 Prime comes with both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
Yep, I'm averaging 59 mpg after using up all the overnight charge. I'm pleased. It's better than what I ever got in a Gen 2 Prius. It would be less through I'm sure if the trip was longer after depleted battery. It never lets it get too low before the ice kicks in. It's pretty dang good. I estimate I'm going about 50 miles before the ice kicks on. But I'm driving very conservatively, if I lead-foot it, electric range depletes much faster.
This will be my second car….. I currently have a 2021 Corolla Hybrid LE… I get 57-60mpg at 70mph. Upstate NY to NYC then back to Upstate NY. 160 miles a day.
The Toyota Prime cars (Prius/Rav4) have underrated hybrid mode MPGs, especially on the highway. Unlike the regular hybrid, the Prime is regening back into the EV range of the traction battery when you're accelerating, coasting or braking. Resulting in the car staying longer in electric assist in hybrid mode. Also, if you do some downhill driving, you can easily regen enough for the car to switch back to EV mode. Because of this your MPG numbers can be pretty high. If you look at your EV driving ratio, you can actually see how long the car actually propelled itself with electricty. Recently, I did a 900 mile road trip on my Prius Prime going 75 to 85mph with the AC on up and over mountains. I avg 54mpg. I looked at my EV ratio, I was in EV for close to 180 miles. That's how good the regen is on the Prime vehicles.
@@christinearmington use 87 octane non-ethanol gas. That should give you an additional 7-10% mileage that the 10% ethanol robbed. With the RAV4 14.5 gal fuel tank and roughly 40mpg, that's about 60 additional miles per tank of gas.
I used to do that 3 click thing, but after watching another video by AMD, the car care nut, I stop after one click. I also don't leave the gas cap dangling in the air next to the car's paint, because the inside of the fuel filler door has a specific place for the fuel filler cap to rest when it's not doing it's normal job.
Freeway speed of 80 mph over 387 miles we netted 35 mpg. Nothing fake about it. Toyota EPA is 35 mpg on the freeway. My wife can get 46 mpg on our Rav 4 hybrid 2019 around town. On the freeway 40 mpg. Our Prime is 500 lbs heavier and 35 mpg driving 80 mph for 387 miles is within EPA estimate
@@rncondie Ok. Those are not bad numbers. So the heavier rav4 prime has similar mpg numbers to the regular hybrid? That,s impressive. 35mpg at 80 miles per hour is impressive. Higher speeds generally leads to lower mpg numbers but I think that can be improved as Toyota seems to be funding mazda,s skyactiv x engine. They even have a joint plant coming up in the US. I think the complete skyactiv x engine could take the rav4 hybrid to like 40mpg at 80 mph. Maybe a tad more than that. When your wife got 40mpg, at what speed was she driving on the freeway? And one more thing. What,s the difference between a freeway and a highway as used in the US. Here in canada they way we use the term seems a tad different.
i own a 2021 Rav4 Prime XSE Premium that now has 3200 miles in the month I owned it. I drove the car 1800 miles from where I bought it drove it home to register it in Texas. I have all kinds of info about the car just ask,
47.5mph .... the dealership filled it up then I put $40 bucks in gas. I filled it when it hit E and only used 11 gallons each time. When it reads 0 zero and the Needle is buried past E, there is still 3.5 gallons left in reserve which is unique.
@@djaztec97 ok 464 is what the gas guage says and the EV says 44 when it is totally filled up. When the gas guage says zero I get 120 extra miles. I havent ever ran it completely out of gas.
If you can find some 87 octane non-ethanol, it will extend your gas mileage. The 10% ethanol in most gas reduces your mileage and power by 7-10%.
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Can you switch to charge mode while driving on the highway and recharge the battery and then it will extend the range a little more when the engine recharges the battery slowly?
If your driving most of the time on EV mode don't have full tank of gas, it does not make sense to haul around dead weight. I only fill up the tank when I go on a long trip.
Great test. I look forward to your follow up to get the accurate gas only mpg. I'd love for you to do one of these for the Jeep Wrangler 4xe, once they start to send some out.
@@artshawaii im driving right now...lol got mine August 20th in Connecticut and drove it back to TX. Frist rav4 prime registrared in Texas. I live 5 miles from Toyota HQ in Plano TX and was told about the car in May by executives of Toyota as they eat at my restaurant.
@@artshawaii Are you saying you are getting 60mph pure hybrid without running all electric miles? I wish I could post pictures on here. The main digital screen behind the steering wheel Maxes out at 99.9mpg. Your talking about the 199.9 on the infotainment eco screen. My current is 89.9mpg hybrid and 2.6 mpkw electric because I been forgetting to plug in at night or at work. I have gone weeks not using gas because I have a L2 charger at home and at my business and it has maxed out at 99.9mph and 199.9 in the infotainment, I wish the main display went over it. I’ve owned the car more than the majority of owners and I’m at 4800 miles on my Prime. It high mostly because of the 1800 mile trip. I’m also on the RAV4prime subreddit since it started. It’s the best place to find the car and know everything about the car. Are you the Hawaiian guy that got it early from reddit??? I have also spent hours on the car and have done a lot of mods to it, mostly lighting related. Myself and another owner worked with comma.ai to realize that open pilot isn’t supported for the RAV4 Prime. Totally sucks it doesn’t as it worked great on the TSS 2.0 in the regular hybrid. The Prime gets a check sum error because it has extra code so the comma.ai guys say the Prime has TSS 2.1 or something. The car should of got the TSS2.5 but it’s only missing one feature of it. There is so much that the reviewers are skipping out about the car that only a owner that has the car for some length of time would know. PS the wireless charger sucks. Do you have the Premium model? If not you can install a after market one that I hear is really good. I need to have the dealer look at mine. It wakes up the phone but doesn’t charge. The interior lights suck, I put LEDs in all of them. I also did the sequential side mirror mods. Also replaced some of the exterior halogen bulbs. Did you know if you walk up to the car in the Premium XSE that the lights under the side mirrors and interior lights come on? The owners of the SE’s said their Primes don’t do that. I haven’t seen anyone mention that feature or Toyota so have no ideas what that feature is called. Oh yeah only a RAV4 Prime owner would know once you charge the car for the first time it doesn’t hit anywhere close to the 42 miles per kilowatt but after you charge it a few times it actually goes up to 48 then rests at 42 or 44. For some reason it drops down like now my car shows up as 38 ac 40 no ac when it normally shows 42 or 44 with ac. It’s dipped before I think it’s because the cold weather that just rolled in. I need to check the tire pressure. Also for some weird reason Toyota shipped the cars to the dealers with the tires overinflated to around 50 psi. I drove my first 1800 from CT to TX like that and it handled awful until I changed it to 36 psi on all tires when I got home. Also I put in a USB 3.0 in the dead switch for fast charging. Aliexpress.com and carid.com has some good RAV4 mod parts. What else, the electric charging schedule is annoying, putting the charging plug can only be released with the key fob which sucks. I replaced all the window switches to the ones with A for auto LEDs on them. Super easy to do. The Toyota all weather mats stick to the back row with Velcro and doesn’t hold well, that sucks. Toyota takes all the data and camera recordings but you can have them stop it. I haven’t done that because they say that the data can be accessed if I get into a wreck. The Toyota remote app sucks, only thing good about it is the remote AC and defrost. No unlock doors or auto start. I already did the 5k Maintence, the dealer didn’t do crap for besides look at the car. Oh yeah I put the Hella trumpet horns on the car because the Meep Meep horn sounded weak, sounds really good now. If you put the car in charge mode which is holding down on the Hybird button. It charges to 30ish mpkw using about 1.5 gallons of gas. At 84mph the car kicks into hybrid no matter what. Hybrid mode +sport mode + traction control off is the only way to get the car to do zero to 60 in 5.5 second. Umm the car sounds like angels in reverse and for some weird reason the speaker is under the hood. The Prime only auto stops for you in dynamic cruise control when going forward but if reversing it will brake automatically if backing down the drive way and a person or car drives by. The HUD brightness is adjustable. There are more settings for things using the steering wheel buttons for the dash screen than all the settings in the infotainment settings. You have to set your own Maintence reminders, it’s not like my BMW they is all set by the dealership. The emergency braking makes a lot of loud weird mechanical noise with the ABS in full use. I ran my car over 60 miles dead empty and filled it today and it too 12 gallons. Normally at zero it’s 11 gallons but if you fill it when the car tells you to and the lights and the reminders come on it only fills to 10 gallons. Oh yeah if you been driving along time the car will have a message that pops up with a image of a coffee cup ☕️ asking you if you want to take a break. I thought that was interesting as it did it a few times during my 30 hour non stop trip. Oh yeah ... if you want to use Apple CarPlay or Android Auto advances features you have to be plugged into the usb by the cigarette lighter but with blue tooth on and connected to the car you will have access to your song playlists on your phone. I have both iPhone and Android phones. I’ve tested all that. I can’t think of anything else but there is tons of stuff that the reviewers don’t know about or go over with the car.
you can never judge true fuel economy by this little bit of fuel consumption, the full tank auto shut off can happen anywhere close to .8 gallon plus or minus, due to fast fill rate. I tracked my full fuel top ups using an app over an year and found our the gas economy comes out to 40 mpg, mostly highway driving.
Just had the price release for the UK. Orders in January for March delivery. Toyota want £47k to £50K for the PHEV. That's over $60k. Don't think many buyers in the UK. That price is Lexus, BMW , Land rover territory
thank you XD toyota(is so basic that euroca ra have more ) and lexus price are way too hight that eurocar offer more and do more. rav4 prime dont have hand free XD
That isn't how you drive a hybrid on the highway. You don't drive it until the battery is at zero then make it go only on gas, you set it to hybrid mode and let it manage itself.
Please re-do this test while using charge mode while driving. Charge battery go fill tank completely... 1.Start with full tank and full charge. 2. Deplete battery mileage. (Cruise control is best 3. Press charge mode/hold button and let the car regenerate the 80% of battery its programmed to do while in motion. (Cruise control) 4. Once charge mode/hold charges drive in EV again. 5. Repeat the process if needed before finishing the test of 90+ mile trip. I think your mileage will be alot higher and prove that this is the actual function of charge mode/hold. On a very long trip if you repeat this method you won't ever have to stop to charge but be able to drive in EV most of your trip.
You did the math manually, so there's nothing to be skeptical about. The Rav4 Prime is just an extremely efficient vehicle in hybrid mode. Your final analysis is not quite correct because you're really only getting to use about 16.5 kwh of the total 18.1 in EV mode. Toyota's Prime models ALWAYS holds a little battery power in reserve for use in hybrid mode. Your initial calculation of around 53 mpg in hybrid mode was probably accurate, especially since there was no aggressive acceleration in hybrid mode during your test.
I did multiple long trips in a Prius Prime and easily averaged 50+. Even when the EV portion of the battery is used up it's still a really good hybrid. A Rav4 being a little bigger, less aerodynamic, I wouldn't be surprised to see 40+. Also, just a personal opinion. The sections of the video that were fast forwarding were nausea inducing. The shots closer to the windshield were a little better. Just throwing it out there, I dont have any suggestions on how to improve the shot as I dont know jack about video editing/shooting. I did like the video overall though.
It's weird, the max EV charge i get varies from 42-53 miles without climate control. Why is that? The only thing that's changed is that my cat converter got pushed up more from the ground.
I don't understand why you needed a charger and gas station close. The correct way to do it would have been to fill up on gas, then drive electrically only to a charger within 50 miles and charge up. Tadaa.
@@autonomyseeker6082 I’ve had mine on order her in Canada since last April. I’m number 9 on the list. They are getting 6 in Feb, then another 6 in Jun. That’s the last I heard. Fingers crossed.
Great Video: I have been trying to find this type of info. Thus when Toyota advertises the Rav4 Prime gets 90 MPE, what does that mean. In my simple logic, I am thinking that if the car gets 94 MPE on a full tank of 14.5 gallons and a full electric charge, the vehicle should be over 1000 combined mileage?
there is definition of PMGe you can easily find. However, I don't understand how it works. I just know they kind of translate one gallon of gas into thermal energy to electricity and find out how far the car can move with that amount of electricity
@@cp-chipheo9528 thanks for the info, I have been looking and I understand more but no where near total of what they are saying, but to me the average every day knucklehead it is totally irrelevant... To me I want to clearly know how many miles I am going to go. Which is stated on the car sticker prices, but the 94 MPGe is in much larger print making things confusing. I stupid me thinking 94 MPGe, the car should be getting over 1000 miles on a tank of gas and full battery
@@MrMarkwill62 I totally agree with you that the 94MPGe is misleading. I do have problem understanding the MPGe and I still do. I hope I can learn more about it by reading and talking with people who have same interest like you. Luckily they still have the 38mpg on the car specs. I only focus on this spec because I'm confused about MPGe. Have a nice weekend.
My experience with our Rav 4 SE Prime if you eco glide and not use the cruise control with no wind keep miles per hour around 70 mph on level surface you will net 42 - 44 miles on a charge Cruise control is too aggressive maintaining the set speed. Wind also really drops MPGe Thanks for the review.
Okay, but what are the max storage or used miles? That's my biggest question. With a full tank of gas an electricity how many miles can you get to use? I get it has EV mode and Hybrid etc. But, what are the max miles capable of being used. I drive a lot of a lot and this may be my next vehicle.
Great video but, you are also predominantly driving on the HWY. Very difficult psychologically to wrap it around your brain, that city driving is better in a Hybrid. I don't know why hybrids don't have as much trend over older than petroleum to power things batteries only. Longevity and convenience is horrid on EVs. You could theoretically run this Rav4 for its lifespan with almost no gasoline consumption, if your commute was about 30 miles total. (I wonder if they reduced the HP to 302, to say 200 HP, if they could get the range much higher?) What was the total MPG..Battery/Gasoline combined?
Toyota states 94 mpge which I am super confused about. Are they saying you will get that with a full charge of the battery and for a full tank of gas? It doesn’t seem likely that that will happen. If we look your testing and use the combined distance of 96.6 divide by 1.119 gallons, we get 86 mpge. However, if you kept traveling until the tank was completely empty, I’d imagine that mpge number would keep dropping.
That's what EPA calculates assuming 'normal' driving behavior. So the split between all electric (say 120mpg effectively, but higher or lower depending on energy gen source) and hybrid (around 38mpg) is what drives the total number. 2/3 all electric and 1/3 hybrid would imply 93mpge, close to the epa #. But if you drive 300 miles and didn't recharge from a full battery, the mpge on that may be in the high 40s. Drive 40 miles and fully recharge, and it becomes 120mpge.
33.7 kWh is equal to one gallon of gasoline and the Rav 4 Prime electric efficiency if it had 33.7 kWh battery would take you 94 miles. The battery is only 18.1 kWh so you cannot even drive 94 miles to achieve the MPGe rating. I prefer miles per kWh which for my Rav 4 on the freeway is 2.6 miles per kWh.
Remember: The space between your vehicle and a vehicle in front of you on a highway should be four seconds at speeds of 46-70 mph, plus one second for every 10 feet of vehicle length. you were tail gating dude. this is not good for a person that is reviewing a car. remember, safety first LOOOOOOOL
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That lady that stopped to compliment the car is just about perfect demographic Toyota was aiming for with the RAV4, they nailed it!
Had a 2020 RAV4 XLE while on vacation this past week and fell in love. We’re keeping it on the list for our next new vehicle.
Better be quick Toyota will only make few because isn’t a Toyota to keep making fun car they love make boring car
@@alh06 😂
I've been observing the RAV4 Prime and I am pleased to find out that it has a lot of safety features, including Blindspot Monitoring, and Rear-Cross Traffic Warning and Braking System, both of which are optional in many other vehicles as of now. Another safety feature that is optional on the XSE Trim is Front and Rear Parking Assist with Automated Braking (PA w/ AB). I'm also glad that the RAV4 Prime comes with both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
Yep, I'm averaging 59 mpg after using up all the overnight charge. I'm pleased. It's better than what I ever got in a Gen 2 Prius. It would be less through I'm sure if the trip was longer after depleted battery. It never lets it get too low before the ice kicks in. It's pretty dang good. I estimate I'm going about 50 miles before the ice kicks on. But I'm driving very conservatively, if I lead-foot it, electric range depletes much faster.
should've filled the gas tank and drove to a charging station on EV mode
Love these MPG tests! Keep em coming.
This will be my second car….. I currently have a 2021 Corolla Hybrid LE… I get 57-60mpg at 70mph. Upstate NY to NYC then back to Upstate NY. 160 miles a day.
Great video , will be my next car. Can't get this suv anywhere in the bayarea right now.this suv is hot right now
The Toyota Prime cars (Prius/Rav4) have underrated hybrid mode MPGs, especially on the highway. Unlike the regular hybrid, the Prime is regening back into the EV range of the traction battery when you're accelerating, coasting or braking. Resulting in the car staying longer in electric assist in hybrid mode. Also, if you do some downhill driving, you can easily regen enough for the car to switch back to EV mode. Because of this your MPG numbers can be pretty high. If you look at your EV driving ratio, you can actually see how long the car actually propelled itself with electricty. Recently, I did a 900 mile road trip on my Prius Prime going 75 to 85mph with the AC on up and over mountains. I avg 54mpg. I looked at my EV ratio, I was in EV for close to 180 miles. That's how good the regen is on the Prime vehicles.
Hi Holly. On the drive for 900 miles, what mode were you in - Auto EV/HV mode, plain HV mode or Hybrid battery charge mode. Thanks very much.
I’m trying to figure out how to get the promised 600 miles combined range.
@@christinearmington use 87 octane non-ethanol gas. That should give you an additional 7-10% mileage that the 10% ethanol robbed. With the RAV4 14.5 gal fuel tank and roughly 40mpg, that's about 60 additional miles per tank of gas.
Good video. I will probably get one when they are more readily available and the dealership is not price gouging
I would really want to see how it would do on a full gass thank all the way down to empty. True test
I used to do that 3 click thing, but after watching another video by AMD, the car care nut, I stop after one click. I also don't leave the gas cap dangling in the air next to the car's paint, because the inside of the fuel filler door has a specific place for the fuel filler cap to rest when it's not doing it's normal job.
Correct. You should stop at one click or risk causing damage to your vehicle. The car care nut a Toyota technician explains why.
Yup! If you overfill, you’ll be in AMD’s doghouse!
5:03 Look at the wheels on that Aviator 😂
Never saw a model like that
What car is that???
That would make 86.327mpg combined. At the end of the day off you start driving with a full tank and battery, that's what you would use in fuel.
Wouldn’t I make more sense to get gas then charge because you could use EV mode to get to the charger 😅
Hmmmm, yes actually that is a good idea! We'll try that for our next PHEV. Thanks!
I checked the comments first because I was sure someone had noticed that. Thanks
The 54 miles per gallon with gas will drop as distance increases
We drove 387 miles 35 miles per gallon on the freeway
Fake news. I got 46 mpg. How do you drive?
Freeway speed of 80 mph over 387 miles we netted 35 mpg.
Nothing fake about it.
Toyota EPA is 35 mpg on the freeway.
My wife can get 46 mpg on our Rav 4 hybrid 2019 around town.
On the freeway 40 mpg.
Our Prime is 500 lbs heavier and 35 mpg driving 80 mph for 387 miles is within EPA estimate
@@rncondie
Ok. Those are not bad numbers. So the heavier rav4 prime has similar mpg numbers to the regular hybrid? That,s impressive.
35mpg at 80 miles per hour is impressive. Higher speeds generally leads to lower mpg numbers but I think that can be improved as Toyota seems to be funding mazda,s skyactiv x engine. They even have a joint plant coming up in the US.
I think the complete skyactiv x engine could take the rav4 hybrid to like 40mpg at 80 mph. Maybe a tad more than that.
When your wife got 40mpg, at what speed was she driving on the freeway?
And one more thing. What,s the difference between a freeway and a highway as used in the US. Here in canada they way we use the term seems a tad different.
Hybrid, prime, or regular
A real world review would have included a couple drag races. Just saying. 🥴
You should do the same test but then when you run out of EV put it on charge mode and see how many miles you get back as EV.
i own a 2021 Rav4 Prime XSE Premium that now has 3200 miles in the month I owned it. I drove the car 1800 miles from where I bought it drove it home to register it in Texas. I have all kinds of info about the car just ask,
Nice! whats your avg mpg on that 1800 mile trip?
47.5mph .... the dealership filled it up then I put $40 bucks in gas. I filled it when it hit E and only used 11 gallons each time. When it reads 0 zero and the Needle is buried past E, there is still 3.5 gallons left in reserve which is unique.
@@internetabyss Thats really impressive! 47,5 on that long trip, you didnt charge the battery up ?
@@internetabyss How many miles per tank do you get from distance to empty? Excluding/including the EV range.
@@djaztec97 ok 464 is what the gas guage says and the EV says 44 when it is totally filled up. When the gas guage says zero I get 120 extra miles. I havent ever ran it completely out of gas.
If you can find some 87 octane non-ethanol, it will extend your gas mileage. The 10% ethanol in most gas reduces your mileage and power by 7-10%.
Can you switch to charge mode while driving on the highway and recharge the battery and then it will extend the range a little more when the engine recharges the battery slowly?
Physics prevents that scenario. Engine uses more miles of gas whilst charging the battery.
Wouldnt the better way to test be gas up, then drive in ev only mode to the charger?
Pretty amazing results and this is coming from a Tesla guy.
The colour of this car looks nice
If your driving most of the time on EV mode don't have full tank of gas, it does not make sense to haul around dead weight. I only fill up the tank when I go on a long trip.
It's a 2 ton car. It's not a huge tank. You won't know the difference.
Great test. I look forward to your follow up to get the accurate gas only mpg. I'd love for you to do one of these for the Jeep Wrangler 4xe, once they start to send some out.
Thank you! We are really looking forward to the 4xe as well, should have one by end of March!
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42mpg gas only
Once lockdown gets lifted i'll be doing a majority of driving on HV mode 5 days a week, so hopefully I can achieve around 50MPG!
If you only drive 30-40 miles a day and charge at home every night your mpg will be 199.9 because the Rav4 prime doesnt calculate higher than that.
@@internetabyss you must not have one then...
@@artshawaii im driving right now...lol got mine August 20th in Connecticut and drove it back to TX. Frist rav4 prime registrared in Texas. I live 5 miles from Toyota HQ in Plano TX and was told about the car in May by executives of Toyota as they eat at my restaurant.
@@internetabyss then you should know that it goes up to 199.9.
Since my original comment, I’ve been averaging in the 60MPG range.
@@artshawaii Are you saying you are getting 60mph pure hybrid without running all electric miles? I wish I could post pictures on here. The main digital screen behind the steering wheel Maxes out at 99.9mpg. Your talking about the 199.9 on the infotainment eco screen. My current is 89.9mpg hybrid and 2.6 mpkw electric because I been forgetting to plug in at night or at work. I have gone weeks not using gas because I have a L2 charger at home and at my business and it has maxed out at 99.9mph and 199.9 in the infotainment, I wish the main display went over it. I’ve owned the car more than the majority of owners and I’m at 4800 miles on my Prime. It high mostly because of the 1800 mile trip. I’m also on the RAV4prime subreddit since it started. It’s the best place to find the car and know everything about the car. Are you the Hawaiian guy that got it early from reddit??? I have also spent hours on the car and have done a lot of mods to it, mostly lighting related. Myself and another owner worked with comma.ai to realize that open pilot isn’t supported for the RAV4 Prime. Totally sucks it doesn’t as it worked great on the TSS 2.0 in the regular hybrid. The Prime gets a check sum error because it has extra code so the comma.ai guys say the Prime has TSS 2.1 or something. The car should of got the TSS2.5 but it’s only missing one feature of it. There is so much that the reviewers are skipping out about the car that only a owner that has the car for some length of time would know. PS the wireless charger sucks. Do you have the Premium model? If not you can install a after market one that I hear is really good. I need to have the dealer look at mine. It wakes up the phone but doesn’t charge. The interior lights suck, I put LEDs in all of them. I also did the sequential side mirror mods. Also replaced some of the exterior halogen bulbs. Did you know if you walk up to the car in the Premium XSE that the lights under the side mirrors and interior lights come on? The owners of the SE’s said their Primes don’t do that. I haven’t seen anyone mention that feature or Toyota so have no ideas what that feature is called. Oh yeah only a RAV4 Prime owner would know once you charge the car for the first time it doesn’t hit anywhere close to the 42 miles per kilowatt but after you charge it a few times it actually goes up to 48 then rests at 42 or 44. For some reason it drops down like now my car shows up as 38 ac 40 no ac when it normally shows 42 or 44 with ac. It’s dipped before I think it’s because the cold weather that just rolled in. I need to check the tire pressure. Also for some weird reason Toyota shipped the cars to the dealers with the tires overinflated to around 50 psi. I drove my first 1800 from CT to TX like that and it handled awful until I changed it to 36 psi on all tires when I got home. Also I put in a USB 3.0 in the dead switch for fast charging. Aliexpress.com and carid.com has some good RAV4 mod parts. What else, the electric charging schedule is annoying, putting the charging plug can only be released with the key fob which sucks. I replaced all the window switches to the ones with A for auto LEDs on them. Super easy to do. The Toyota all weather mats stick to the back row with Velcro and doesn’t hold well, that sucks. Toyota takes all the data and camera recordings but you can have them stop it. I haven’t done that because they say that the data can be accessed if I get into a wreck. The Toyota remote app sucks, only thing good about it is the remote AC and defrost. No unlock doors or auto start. I already did the 5k Maintence, the dealer didn’t do crap for besides look at the car. Oh yeah I put the Hella trumpet horns on the car because the Meep Meep horn sounded weak, sounds really good now. If you put the car in charge mode which is holding down on the Hybird button. It charges to 30ish mpkw using about 1.5 gallons of gas. At 84mph the car kicks into hybrid no matter what. Hybrid mode +sport mode + traction control off is the only way to get the car to do zero to 60 in 5.5 second. Umm the car sounds like angels in reverse and for some weird reason the speaker is under the hood. The Prime only auto stops for you in dynamic cruise control when going forward but if reversing it will brake automatically if backing down the drive way and a person or car drives by. The HUD brightness is adjustable. There are more settings for things using the steering wheel buttons for the dash screen than all the settings in the infotainment settings. You have to set your own Maintence reminders, it’s not like my BMW they is all set by the dealership. The emergency braking makes a lot of loud weird mechanical noise with the ABS in full use. I ran my car over 60 miles dead empty and filled it today and it too 12 gallons. Normally at zero it’s 11 gallons but if you fill it when the car tells you to and the lights and the reminders come on it only fills to 10 gallons. Oh yeah if you been driving along time the car will have a message that pops up with a image of a coffee cup ☕️ asking you if you want to take a break. I thought that was interesting as it did it a few times during my 30 hour non stop trip. Oh yeah ... if you want to use Apple CarPlay or Android Auto advances features you have to be plugged into the usb by the cigarette lighter but with blue tooth on and connected to the car you will have access to your song playlists on your phone. I have both iPhone and Android phones. I’ve tested all that. I can’t think of anything else but there is tons of stuff that the reviewers don’t know about or go over with the car.
you can never judge true fuel economy by this little bit of fuel consumption, the full tank auto shut off can happen anywhere close to .8 gallon plus or minus, due to fast fill rate.
I tracked my full fuel top ups using an app over an year and found our the gas economy comes out to 40 mpg, mostly highway driving.
Just had the price release for the UK. Orders in January for March delivery. Toyota want £47k to £50K for the PHEV. That's over $60k. Don't think many buyers in the UK. That price is Lexus, BMW , Land rover territory
thank you XD toyota(is so basic that euroca ra have more ) and lexus price are way too hight that eurocar offer more and do more. rav4 prime dont have hand free XD
That is normal. Hybrids, depending on the road and your speed, get amazing fuel economy.
Awesome video!
Thanks!
That isn't how you drive a hybrid on the highway. You don't drive it until the battery is at zero then make it go only on gas, you set it to hybrid mode and let it manage itself.
Please re-do this test while using charge mode while driving.
Charge battery go fill tank completely...
1.Start with full tank and full charge.
2. Deplete battery mileage.
(Cruise control is best
3. Press charge mode/hold button and let the car regenerate the 80% of battery its programmed to do while in motion.
(Cruise control)
4. Once charge mode/hold charges drive in EV again.
5. Repeat the process if needed before finishing the test of 90+ mile trip.
I think your mileage will be alot higher and prove that this is the actual function of charge mode/hold.
On a very long trip if you repeat this method you won't ever have to stop to charge but be able to drive in EV most of your trip.
real world fuel usage with a full battery, about 90mpg?
You did the math manually, so there's nothing to be skeptical about. The Rav4 Prime is just an extremely efficient vehicle in hybrid mode. Your final analysis is not quite correct because you're really only getting to use about 16.5 kwh of the total 18.1 in EV mode. Toyota's Prime models ALWAYS holds a little battery power in reserve for use in hybrid mode. Your initial calculation of around 53 mpg in hybrid mode was probably accurate, especially since there was no aggressive acceleration in hybrid mode during your test.
I did multiple long trips in a Prius Prime and easily averaged 50+. Even when the EV portion of the battery is used up it's still a really good hybrid. A Rav4 being a little bigger, less aerodynamic, I wouldn't be surprised to see 40+.
Also, just a personal opinion. The sections of the video that were fast forwarding were nausea inducing. The shots closer to the windshield were a little better. Just throwing it out there, I dont have any suggestions on how to improve the shot as I dont know jack about video editing/shooting.
I did like the video overall though.
It's weird, the max EV charge i get varies from 42-53 miles without climate control. Why is that? The only thing that's changed is that my cat converter got pushed up more from the ground.
I use speed box off the AppStore what app do you use for the mph on your phone?
Why do you have the A/C running? Doesn't that affect the mileage efficiency?
Like 2-4 electric miles wasted with AC on blast
How is the kWh/100km consume in pure EV mode on highway and on normal road?
I don't understand why you needed a charger and gas station close. The correct way to do it would have been to fill up on gas, then drive electrically only to a charger within 50 miles and charge up. Tadaa.
That would work fine for testing the EV range, but then the gasoline portion would be skewed toward off-highway driving.
Nice video
Thanks!
Am I the only one that things that center screen is hideous on the RAV4. Wtf were they thinking. I just want to punch it off
I waiting on mine to arrive.... Only 6 months to go....
are they releasing another batch in 6 months? or you have it reserved and it comes in 6 months?
@@autonomyseeker6082 I’ve had mine on order her in Canada since last April. I’m number 9 on the list. They are getting 6 in Feb, then another 6 in Jun. That’s the last I heard. Fingers crossed.
Does it have dog mode ( keeping the cabin a certain temperature when you leave them for a minutes ? )
Great Video: I have been trying to find this type of info. Thus when Toyota advertises the Rav4 Prime gets 90 MPE, what does that mean. In my simple logic, I am thinking that if the car gets 94 MPE on a full tank of 14.5 gallons and a full electric charge, the vehicle should be over 1000 combined mileage?
there is definition of PMGe you can easily find. However, I don't understand how it works. I just know they kind of translate one gallon of gas into thermal energy to electricity and find out how far the car can move with that amount of electricity
@@cp-chipheo9528 thanks for the info, I have been looking and I understand more but no where near total of what they are saying, but to me the average every day knucklehead it is totally irrelevant... To me I want to clearly know how many miles I am going to go. Which is stated on the car sticker prices, but the 94 MPGe is in much larger print making things confusing. I stupid me thinking 94 MPGe, the car should be getting over 1000 miles on a tank of gas and full battery
@@MrMarkwill62 I totally agree with you that the 94MPGe is misleading. I do have problem understanding the MPGe and I still do. I hope I can learn more about it by reading and talking with people who have same interest like you. Luckily they still have the 38mpg on the car specs. I only focus on this spec because I'm confused about MPGe. Have a nice weekend.
@@cp-chipheo9528 thanks... Appreciate your straight talk
Could you do this for audi q5 e quattro tfsi
How pricey is it to replace the batteries and that fancy headlamp system out of warranty? Can one override auto-breaking on icy roads?
The battery has like a 10 year warranty
hey man, will be gopro hero 9 better for pov video shooting than gopro hero 8？
It should be a bit better, but not a drastic difference from the 8.
@@DailyMotor understand,thanks man!
you need to run it until the gas tank is empty - then you have a much smaller margin of error
Where did you get the wingbars? Thanks
Or maybe you call it crossbars* thanks
charging / fueling time is ?
What's the size of the gas tank ?
2 best hibri car range
Short, one way test, downhill with tail wind: Hey look, the Rav4 gets 100 mpg!
Just wondering if you use cruise control does it kick you out of EV only mode? The outlander phev does this :(
No it does not. That's the most daft thing ever.
@@AB-80X looks like the new outlander phev corrected this problem 👍
His test is so tricky.
How about that? 100miles mpg or 200miles mpg?
My experience with our Rav 4 SE Prime if you eco glide and not use the cruise control with no wind keep miles per hour around 70 mph on level surface you will net 42 - 44 miles on a charge
Cruise control is too aggressive maintaining the set speed. Wind also really drops MPGe
Thanks for the review.
the point od drive isnt about eco mode is too boring is to drive you way
what is this pro l/100? 4.4.?
Why don't more manufacturers build PHEV's?
Because of the political agenda going towards EV's. You are talking sense and logic, but that does not work in the real world...
Okay, but what are the max storage or used miles? That's my biggest question. With a full tank of gas an electricity how many miles can you get to use? I get it has EV mode and Hybrid etc. But, what are the max miles capable of being used. I drive a lot of a lot and this may be my next vehicle.
I thought 600 miles , full gas & electric
What is it in km???
Great video but, you are also predominantly driving on the HWY. Very difficult psychologically to wrap it around your brain, that city driving is better in a Hybrid. I don't know why hybrids don't have as much trend over older than petroleum to power things batteries only. Longevity and convenience is horrid on EVs. You could theoretically run this Rav4 for its lifespan with almost no gasoline consumption, if your commute was about 30 miles total. (I wonder if they reduced the HP to 302, to say 200 HP, if they could get the range much higher?) What was the total MPG..Battery/Gasoline combined?
I enjoy or video I notice on your mobile phone that measure road speed . May I asked what is App call
THX
Not bad 94mpg E"
what's the top speed on that car ???????????
70mile top speed in hight way
@@calindor19 are u driving a bicycle ???
@@labmaamoura2435 sorry I read wrong XD
120mph
@@calindor19 no it's not, the non hybrid one got 219 HP and it goes 130mph, the prime got 302 HP .....
Fast Forward scenes obnoxious; what were you thinking? Otherwise good.
You said 30 miles , it’s 42 miles
Idk where I said 30, but was it referencing highway EV range? Because that'll be lower than mixed driving.
Toyota states 94 mpge which I am super confused about. Are they saying you will get that with a full charge of the battery and for a full tank of gas?
It doesn’t seem likely that that will happen. If we look your testing and use the combined distance of 96.6 divide by 1.119 gallons, we get 86 mpge. However, if you kept traveling until the tank was completely empty, I’d imagine that mpge number would keep dropping.
That's what EPA calculates assuming 'normal' driving behavior. So the split between all electric (say 120mpg effectively, but higher or lower depending on energy gen source) and hybrid (around 38mpg) is what drives the total number. 2/3 all electric and 1/3 hybrid would imply 93mpge, close to the epa #. But if you drive 300 miles and didn't recharge from a full battery, the mpge on that may be in the high 40s. Drive 40 miles and fully recharge, and it becomes 120mpge.
33.7 kWh is equal to one gallon of gasoline and the Rav 4 Prime electric efficiency if it had 33.7 kWh battery would take you 94 miles.
The battery is only 18.1 kWh so you cannot even drive 94 miles to achieve the MPGe rating.
I prefer miles per kWh which for my Rav 4 on the freeway is 2.6 miles per kWh.
Remember: The space between your vehicle and a vehicle in front of you on a highway should be four seconds at speeds of 46-70 mph, plus one second for every 10 feet of vehicle length.
you were tail gating dude. this is not good for a person that is reviewing a car. remember, safety first LOOOOOOOL
Four seconds? Any idea how much that is? No, it's two seconds.
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WHY SPEND SO MUCH OF VIDEO TIME IN PETROL STATION? NOT INTERESTING AT ALL
WHY DO YOU USE ALL CAPS FRED? ARE YOU SPECIAL ED FRED?
That interior looks date! I don't like!