2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime - MPG Test | Real-world Highway EV Range and Fuel Economy 

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Better be quick Toyota will only make few because isn’t a Toyota to keep making fun car they love make boring car

@@calindor19 I had a seizure trying to read this.

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.

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!

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

Never saw a model like that What car is that???

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.

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

Physics prevents that scenario. Engine uses more miles of gas whilst charging the battery.

Thank you! We are really looking forward to the 4xe as well, should have one by end of March!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i3ke22qn2AQ.html 42mpg gas only

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

It's a 2 ton car. It's not a huge tank. You won't know the difference.

That would work fine for testing the EV range, but then the gasoline portion would be skewed toward off-highway driving.

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.

Like 2-4 electric miles wasted with AC on blast

Thanks!

The battery has like a 10 year warranty

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

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.

It should be a bit better, but not a drastic difference from the 8.

​@@DailyMotor understand,thanks man!

Or maybe you call it crossbars* thanks

Thanks!

I thought 600 miles , full gas & electric

No it does not. That's the most daft thing ever.

@@AB-80X looks like the new outlander phev corrected this problem 👍

the point od drive isnt about eco mode is too boring is to drive you way

Idk where I said 30, but was it referencing highway EV range? Because that'll be lower than mixed driving.

Because of the political agenda going towards EV's. You are talking sense and logic, but that does not work in the real world...

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 .....

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.

WHY DO YOU USE ALL CAPS FRED? ARE YOU SPECIAL ED FRED?

Four seconds? Any idea how much that is? No, it's two seconds.