Recent content by tim

Is there any chance of this happening? As of June 2020, Toyota was still 72,407 cars away from the 200,000 limit. Only the RAV4 Prime and Prius Prime will count toward the limit. In the Prius Prime's best year (2018), 27,595 cars were sold. So, it's will be at least one year and probably...

Maybe the Clarity sounds better if you use the battery to cover all of the 40 miles of local driving. Depending on how cheap your electricity is, you might effectively get the 60mpg that you're targeting.

I don't have a RAV4 PHEV (but I'm considering buying one), but I read that charging on 120V takes 12A and around 10 hours max. For those with the vehicle, how long is the charging cable? I currently have a Honda Clarity PHEV, which has the charging port on the front driver fender. I believe...

I'm also not a fan of the side camera. I turned my off permanently. There's a setting to do that.

The strange thing is that I remember being able to control the chevrons immediately after starting up the car, and I could always get one chevron per pull. Not being able to control the chevrons exactly with a single pull is somewhat dangerous for me because I can't anticipate if pulling the...

Good ideas. I've been frustrated at not being able to easily reason about when the issue would occur. However, I'll take these suggestions and try to find an always repeatable situation. Hopefully, it's just what Landshark pointed out, and I just need to be more aware of those situations...

In the past few weeks, my regen paddle response has been spotty. Previously, I could pull on the left paddle and get one additional chevron each time. Now, I sometimes pull on the paddle and get no response (no chevrons) even after pulling for twenty times over 10 seconds. However, sometimes...

LKAS doesn't kick in for me until I hit about 45 mph. I agree that this is an arbitrary limit. On my Odyssey, LKAS kicks in earlier and stays enabled below 40 mph.

I haven't been driving much during these coronavirus times. So, I'm wondering if I can put off doing the service that is indicated on my dashboard. I'm guessing that the service alerts are based on calendar time and not mileage or oil quality. On my Odyssey, there is an oil life indicator...

That might make sense for some people, especially those who also don't mind paying the annual registration and insurance and who have the garage or driveway space for a car that is not used much. In my family, my wife drives an ICE minivan. I considered the BEV and decided against it because I...

I think this is the key to the advantage of the PHEV. There is no planning required. I just drive the car without thinking about range. Several times a year, I need more than the 45 or so electric miles from the Clarity. Most of the time, I know in advance that I need the extra range, so I...

OK, here's another somewhat related question: If my car and charging cable are outside in the sun, do I need to be concerned about exposing the cable to sun and charging at the same time? That is, do I need to be concerned about high temperatures?

Great answer! Thanks!

When I charge my car, I usually try to lay out my charging cable so that there are no loops in the cable. That is, no part of the cable touches another part of the cable. I believe the current going into the car is AC, so I imagine there is some (hopefully small) amount of inductance created...

The NHTSA has a rule that all hybrids and electric vehicles travelling at less than 18.6 mph (30 km/h) must emit warning sounds that pedestrians must be able to hear over background noises. So, it's not legal to get rid of the sound.