I bought a new Rav4 Prime SE in July 2023. It was located in Baltimore, MD and I live in California, so I had to fly out there and drive it back home. This involved a 3,200 mile road trip, on I-81 from Baltimore to Sevierville, TN, then I-40 to Barstow, CA, then CA-58 to Bakersfield CA, and finally CA-99 home to Sacramento. It took me 6 days of driving, averaging a bit more than 500 miles per day. The whole trip was done in HV mode, since there was no practical way to use EV mode on a road trip this long. Since this was a brand new car and still on it's break-in period, I didn't want to drive it too fast, so for about 85% of the trip, I had the cruise control set at 58 mph (55 mph actual speed on my GPS), with the remaining 15% at 70 mph. Overall, I got 46 mpg. The lowest fillup-to-fillup fuel economy was 41.2 mpg, on a day with a lot of headwind crossing Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and the best was 52.1 mpg in Virginia and Tennessee, where there was some tailwind for a couple of days. As for EV Range: Last week, I was able to drive the car 52 miles in EV mode, all at 25~40 mph, and when I got to the free public L2 charging station I often use, there was still 5 miles of EV range left on the guess-o-meter. I don't expect this level of EV range to last more than a year or two; the battery will lose some capacity over the next few months, but it seems hopeful that over the long term, I should be able to count on 44~46 miles EV range (at low speeds). Yes, the Rav4 Prime is expensive, but I live in California, where gasoline (and diesel fuel) prices have been the highest in the US ever since I can remember. On this road trip, I paid as little as $2.89/gallon in Oklahoma and Texas, but when I got back into Califonia, the cheapest gas I could find on GasBuddy along my route was $4.59 in Bakersfield. People point out that there are less expensive CSUV's out there, but most of them aren't Hybrid, they aren't AWD, and they have fuel economy at least 1/3 below the Rav4 Hybrid and Rav4 Prime. I had a 2014 Subaru Outback for 4 years, and while it was a nice enough small wagon, and it had AWD, I was having to put $50 worth of gas in it every week. With my Rav4 being a PHEV, I can probably cut that to $31/month, (1 fill up every other month). For people that live in states with cheap gasoline, a 25 mpg Nissan Rogue for $32,000 might be more attractive than a Rav4 Prine for $44,000, but in California, with gasoline prices having been as high as $6.50/gallon for a few months last year, not so much.

@grabagearcolorado

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for that information. And I agree with you. Especially if you can use a free lv2 charger. That’s awesome. When mine was brand new we took it on a 6000 mile road trip. Saw mid/low 40s the entire time except in Kansas lol. After 10,000 miles it’s getting even better mpg. As for range in ev, we average 45 miles in ev. And that’s after almost a year and we charge it every day. I think you made a great purchase and you will enjoy it for years to come. -Jared

@laura-ann.0726

11 ай бұрын

@@grabagearcolorado - There are several free public L2 chargers that I know of here in Sacramento: 1. SMUD Headquarters Building. SMUD is our electric utility company, and they have 8 Clipper Creek L2 chargers (2 are "public", the other 6 are in the employee parking lot but anyone can use them after 6:00pm). 2. Amazon Hub in Elk Grove. 8 Clipper Creek L2 chargers in the parking lot. 3. Arden Fair Mall. 4 Clipper Creek and 2 Volta chargers in the parking lot. 4. Citrus Heights City Hall, 2 Clipper Creek chargers in the parking lot. 5. Century 16 movie theater in Citrus Height, 2 Volta chargers. 6. Antelope Public Library - 1 Clipper Creek charger 7. Rocklin City Hall - 1 Clipper Creek charger 8. Folsom Lake Community College - 6 Clipper Creek chargers 9. California Department of Real Estate and Covered California parking lots, 4 Clipper Creek chargers. The above are all completely free, but not all of them are powered up 24/7 - several of them are 06:00am to 08:00pm, and some others shut down midnight to 06:00am. There are probably at least another 6~8 free Clipper Creek or Volta charger locations that I haven't investigated yet. The PlugShare app/website is how I found all of these to behin with, but PlugShare doesn't always make clear whether a site is free, or charges fees to connect. You have to go there and see for yourself, which I should probably do, to make a really comprehensive map of all the free chargers around Sacramento. I know there are at least 2 or 3 more Libraries and City Halls, and at least 1 other movie theater, that have chargers that are (probably) free, I just haven't been to these places yet to check on the status. There are lots of other public L2 chargers around Sacramento that aren't free, these range from 25¢ to 48¢/kW-hr.

The best consumption test on KZread. The most real. It's a big family car that you can take on holidays and on the highway. You need to know what consumption it has. Everyone who takes the test takes it and goes very slowly and only in the city. Good luck in the future.

@grabagearcolorado

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for that awesome comment. Made our day.

Thanks for your video. At those speeds I would have been happy to get in the high 30's for MPG. Getting nearly 50 MPG is amazing. We have a 2022 RAV 4 Prime model SE purchased new in March 2022 now with over 20,000 miles. Our RAV 4 Prime has to be the most fuel efficient vehicles out there. We consistently achieve over 45 + MPG in pure hybrid mode with a depleted battery. With a full battery we are consistently getting 45-50+ miles on pure electric power. Thats living here in Northwest Oregon driving at moderate speeds from 25 MPH in town to 55-60 MPH on our highways. I don't know of any SUV all wheel drive vehicle that can match those figures.

@grabagearcolorado

10 ай бұрын

Your absolutely right. It’s an amazing vehicle. Thanks for watching

Very good… No BS. I love the video.

@grabagearcolorado

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

The RAV4 Prime would be great if only it didn't cost FIFTY PERCENT more than an equivalent SUV !!! For example, the going rate for a near new used RAV4 is 60k Canadian. A comparable SUV, a Rogue SV with the moonroof and the turbo is under 40k Canadian, near new used. It would take too long for the RAV4 to start saving money. There's at least 20k $ (CDN) to catch up on. Also, electricity is NOT free. Anyway... So, your result was 49 mpg. This is 4.8 liters / 100 km. I'm in Canada, so we're using the better metric system, lol. On a long road trip, driving careful, it totally normal to use around the 6.3 liters / 100km. So that's only 1.5 liters per 100 km more. The RAV4 wins, but... given the insanely higher price tag, it's wiser to opt for that Rogue.

@grabagearcolorado

11 ай бұрын

We said the same thing in our comparison video.

Did you start with zero battery charge? Otherwise don’t forget to subtract the electric miles driven.

@grabagearcolorado

11 ай бұрын

Started with a full charge. Used to climb the mountains. Without electric would be 44 mpg

@geredcole1916

11 ай бұрын

Yeah epa doesn’t do it’s test with no battery. Epa says 38. The fact he got almost 50 mpg in the mountains is absolutely amazing.

@chrisrobey77

11 ай бұрын

@@geredcole1916 The EPA does multiple tests for PHEVs and one of them is a depleted battery cycle test. www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/pdfs/EPA%20test%20procedure%20for%20EVs-PHEVs-11-14-2017.pdf

@laura-ann.0726

11 ай бұрын

@@geredcole1916 - The Rav4 being a CSUV, makes it much more sensitive to speed and aerodynamic drag than, say, a Camry Hybrid, which uses the same engine and transaxle. Driving a Rav4 Hybrid or Prime at 35 mph out in the country, say on a lazy Sunday morning drive where you aren't in a hurry, you can easily break 50 mpg, same mileage that the Camry Hybrid gets at 55mph. Now drive your Rav4 Hybrid home on the freeway at 68 mph, and watch that fuel economy drop to 40 mpg. Drive 75mph, which is actually the average freeway speed where I live, and it drops to 35 mpg. The Sienna suffers from this too, because it's a huge box on wheels. Even though it has exactly the same powertrain as the Camry Hybrid, the Sienna gets only 36 mpg EPA rating. It's all about aerodynamics. I had a 2019 Prius Prime for 4 years (gave this car to my daughter when I bought the Rav4), and I once got an astounding 98 mpg on a road trip between Sacramento and Chico, on a day with a stiff tailwind. That trip was 100 miles, and the car used just slightly more than 1 gallon of gas to do it.

@DUNGSTA

10 ай бұрын

​@@geredcole1916nó way you believe he got 50 mpgs going up the mountains... 😂