Hi folks, anyone else keep track of the kwh's for a full charge? I have a 2+ year old Prime with the upgraded charger. It has close to 44k miles on it now. I have had charging scenarios where the battery was depleted to HV mode, and I was getting over 14 kwh's for a full charge even up to a year ago. Nowadays, when I do a full charge from 0% battery and car running in HV mode, I get just under 13.6 kwh's. I just did a charge again today to corroborate, and from dead 0% to full charge it took about 13.57 kwh's as reported by Chargepoint. The next test will be to do this on 120V and my watt meter. But, is anyone else noticing some capacity degradation? I've heard that on the Prius Prime's, battery capacity degrades about 2% per year. Which, makes sense for me: 14 kwh * (1 - 0.04) = 13.44 kwh. Which is close to what I'm getting now, albeit, I'm using 14 kwh's as the battery capacity size -- which I feel under estimates the battery size.
I think the battery pack will degrade faster than people think (especially us that have paddle shifters). Regenning the battery pack going down big mountains charges quite fast. I believe it can be faster than 14 kw. I think this plays in role with quicker battery degradation, but who knows. Curious to hear what other long term Prime drivers are experiencing.
For 44k miles, though, the amount of battery degradation is pretty good, even though that's not close to the amount of EV miles we've driven. Would be nice for Toyota to have a rough estimate of that on the dash board.
I think the battery pack will degrade faster than people think (especially us that have paddle shifters). Regenning the battery pack going down big mountains charges quite fast. I believe it can be faster than 14 kw. I think this plays in role with quicker battery degradation, but who knows. Curious to hear what other long term Prime drivers are experiencing.
For 44k miles, though, the amount of battery degradation is pretty good, even though that's not close to the amount of EV miles we've driven. Would be nice for Toyota to have a rough estimate of that on the dash board.