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Old 08-28-2006, 05:03 AM
Orcrone Orcrone is offline
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Default Re: Pulse and Glide works, But...

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Originally Posted by WVGasGuy
Not that I care what they think, but the Prius owners say this is not pulse and glide.

"True" glide only occurs when there is no interaction going on between the battery, the ICE and the "system'. I have the NAV and have never, never been able to generate more than a second where all arrows of interaction dissapear.

Now, as I said in another post, we either need to remame what TCH'ers are calling "pulse and glide" or stick our noses up and say who cares, we've redefined it.
I was able to get up to about 10 seconds with no arrows showing, but not until my speed got below 35. However, I only have the watered down display available without the NAV system. So perhaps the more detailed display would have possibly shown I wasn't gliding. Who knows?

Regardless, it may get you great mileage, but I won't be doing it. Even on open roads with no one behind you the gas saved is not worth the annoyance of driving like this.

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