Re: Battery Mode
The Prius can't do it normally with reasonable acceleration, you gotta drive really light to keep the engine off. There is a modification to upgrade the car to a feature that comes standard on European and Japanese models so that it forces (to some degree) the engine to stay off until the threshold speed, or battery condition was low, etc. That allows somewhat reasonable acceleration, but if you try to use more than about 20hp worth of battery power the engine will come back on and EV mode will cancell. I don't think there's an equivalent EV mode button option in the SUVs but I don't know for sure.
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