{"id":816,"date":"2019-11-21T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=816"},"modified":"2023-03-12T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T20:31:39","slug":"plug-in-economics-for-prius-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2019\/11\/21\/plug-in-economics-for-prius-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug-in Economics for Prius Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to Toyota, our new 2020 Prius Prime PHEV gets around 4.3L \/ 100km of city driving. We will use this number since it is not too far off of the combine driving number of 4.4L \/ 100km. This means at the time of writing this post, the current fuel price at our neighbourhood pump is at $1.15 \/ L. If you do some fancy math, the Prime will yield us 20.2km per dollar invested at the pump (20.2 km\/$).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ontario Electricity Costs (Fall of 2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As depicted by the chart on the right, in Ontario we have three tiers of charging rates. The Prime in the winter can do about 35km with a 9kWh battery. The exact numbers are 40km \/ 8.8kWh, but this is perfect condition, and we use some battery for heating the vehicle. This will yield us the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tier<\/strong><\/td>Yield<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
On-Peak<\/td>18.7km\/$<\/td><\/tr>
Mid-Peak<\/td>27.0km\/$<\/td><\/tr>
Off-Peak<\/td>38.5km\/$<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So by comparing the above numbers, it makes perfect sense to charge the vehicle during Off and Mid Peak hours, and not so much during On-Peak hours. However the On-Peak comparison is so close that if the mileage rating was at 4.5L\/100km then it is a wash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a bit more fancy math, you can actually calculate how much does gas have to cost per Litre before On-Peak charges make sense. This turns out to be around $1.24\/L.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully you find this information helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Toyota, our new 2020 Prius Prime PHEV gets around 4.3L \/ 100km of city driving. We will use this number since it is not too far off of the combine driving number of 4.4L \/ 100km. This means at the time of writing this post, the current fuel price at our neighbourhood pump … Continue reading “Plug-in Economics for Prius Prime”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[131,104,103,138,28],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ev","tag-bev","tag-cars","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-ev","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-da","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}