REVIEW: Hymotion Battery Plug-In Prius

philmcneal · #**121** 10-10-2008, 02:08 AM

so you fill up your first gas tank yet since the install? any negatives since you had it? besides what's mentioned already in this thread?

TheForce · #**122** 10-12-2008, 08:39 PM

Well since I said I would fill up on October 12th I figure I better tell you my results. I actually filled up on the 11th because my preferred gas station is closed on Sundays.

Anyway here are the numbers.

1275 Miles
7.862 Gallons of gas @3.199/gal
210.403kWh @ 8 cents per kWh
162.2MPG

Cost is 3.3 cents per mile on this tank.

According to my CAN-View I could have gone another 400-500 miles before I needed to fill up.

I'm finishing up the review and should have the final draft ready in the next week or two. I'm sure you all have a lot of questions and I'm sure my final review will answer most of them. If you have any questions just post them here and I will try to answer them.

Right Lane Cruiser · #**123** 10-12-2008, 09:28 PM

Nice results, Jay!!! I look forward to your final review.

bomber991 · #**124** 10-12-2008, 10:54 PM

How much did this one tank raise your lifetime mpg average on cleanmpg?

msirach · #**125** 10-13-2008, 12:19 AM

Wow! Very impressive Jay! In your review, are you calculating savings/payback time? Looks like you will be very capable of a 2K tank.

flatty · #**126** 10-13-2008, 11:34 AM

With the gas and elec numbers above, you'd need to do 625,000 miles to recover $10,000 battery cost over a std Prius.

At $4/gal and national average electricity (10 cents), you get 6.1 and 4.1 cents/mile. Which would be about 500,000 miles to break even.

My electric rates here are horrendous (19.5 cents/kwh; including all the weird taxes and charges). Fuel is the same @ $3.20.

That gives a 5.2 cents a mile cost here for this PHEV. A standard Prius, at that gas cost (and 65mpg) is 4.9 cents.

I'd need 17.9 cents/Kwh to beat $3.20 gal gas. Or, $3.50 gas (last week?) for electric to work (PHEV with these figures) on operating costs, anyway.

No easy answers.

Skwyre7 · #**127** 10-14-2008, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomber991

How much did this one tank raise your lifetime mpg average on cleanmpg?

TheForce · #**128** 10-14-2008, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomber991

How much did this one tank raise your lifetime mpg average on cleanmpg?

I think it raised it by about 1.5mpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by msirach

Wow! Very impressive Jay! In your review, are you calculating savings/payback time? Looks like you will be very capable of a 2K tank.

I'll try to have some of that info in my final review.

TheForce · #**129** 10-22-2008, 05:01 PM

Just to let everyone know I'm still working of the final writeup. There is a lot to type out, organize, spllcheck, organize again, read everything, correct mistakes, read again, add some more stuff, and correct more mistakes. I haven't had much time to work on it but with any luck I hope to have it done by the end of October.

xcel · #**130** 10-22-2008, 05:33 PM

Hi Jay:

___You should have access to the draft forum at the bottom of the Information section. If you do, post your draft there and I can start inserting all the pics I uploaded for it last month.

___Good Luck

___Wayne