Jonny - Sorry I did not get to my phone/VM when you called to tell me (I was the first here to hear about it -- woohoo) but you are correct in your excitement. Look in the "Share" section for two photos of when I achieved 5 bars of EV assist. I had attained it before but did not capture it (it was too blurry to count 5). The first time ever it hit I just thought it was 4 bars like everyone said was the maximum but it just looked more full than before and when it dropped one bar of assist and was STILL at four bars then I knew I was actually at 5 bars previously. Woot! I then was able to capture two photos showing that I held the 5 bars of assist for close to 0.5 mile. It definitely only gets better as you go.

--> Averaged 685 miles/week and 49.0 mpg in first year (35.7k miles from Aug 7, 2006 to Aug 7, 2007)