What's your Toyota hybrid ev mode range?

[gmaz]

I bought a Yaris hybrid a few months ago for my wife and am generally happy with it, but the EV mode seems to have a very short range i.e. < 100 metres. Even with the EV Mode button pressed, it seems to switch back to the engine after a few seconds. Is this normal?

I'm looking into getting Torque Pro on a Android phone to check the state of the traction battery but some experiences from other sources would help.

Edit - Just found this in the manual but I'm not even getting this much:

Possible driving distance when driving in EV drive mode

EV drive mode’s possible driving distance ranges from a few hundred meters
to approximately 1 km (0.6 miles). However, depending on vehicle conditions,
there are situations when EV drive mode cannot be used.
(The distance that is possible depends on the hybrid battery [traction battery]
level and driving conditions.)

Edited by gmaz on Wednesday 27th June 09:21

[Deerfoot]

We've got a 2014 Yaris hybrid, it'll do around 800m in ev mode. We don't even bother with the ev button unless we enter a car park or such like.

We're getting around 56mpg.

[gmaz]

Deerfoot said:

We've got a 2014 Yaris hybrid, it'll do around 800m in ev mode. We don't even bother with the ev button unless we enter a car park or such like.

We're getting around 56mpg.

Hmmm, that's much better than us.

I got a copy of this to see if the batteries are OK - http://hybridassistant.blogspot.com/p/about.html

[Deerfoot]

I'll add that to keep it in ev mode you really need to be gentle with it, it'll do the distance when crawling around a car park and once I managed to get around 500m in ev mode at around 20mph but usually it just does its own thing and we're more than happy to sort itself out.

When we first got it I was slightly obsessed with watching the flow-diagram on the screen but I just ignore it now.

My wife uses it around town and on the school run (around 5 miles each way) and to be honest it has been perfect. Performance is pretty much non existent but it costs peanuts to run and she's happy with it.

[raspy]

My 2016 Prius had could drive about 1.5 miles on EV mode (assuming all the bars in the battery were lit) - It was rather useful for those occasions when you have a very short local trip.

[gangzoom]

Toyota/Lexus 'hybrids' shouldnt be thought of as EVs in any sense. The electric motor is there to supplement the lack of torque when using a Atkins combustion cycle for the petrol engine.

Our IS300H can do about 1 mile in 'EV mode', but thats accelerating at milk float speeds and staying below 30mph. We simply use ours like any other combustion car. The Atkins cycle is efficent though, 50mpg around town, 60mpg on long drives, better than what we got in our old diesel Civic.

But if you really want EV mode to work properly get a proper EV .