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  • Efficiency test of my 2024 Prius Prime: Gasoline vs Electricity in my first week.

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  • I made it clear that to do the test they're asking for is four fucking hours of test at a minimum.

    And then they come back and call me fucking biased. Okay you fucking asshole. You run the test. Don't complain to me.

    The fucking gasoline test is going to take a long time, it's going to force me off of EV mode for literally days and I've actually got busy things this week (wedding, work, etc. etc). I have no time to do a substantial gasoline test anytime soon.

    You may absolutely have planned these tests perfectly, and the other person may be wrong. But if they are, then prove it

    The other asshole hasn't tested jack shit and is just bullshitting from his keyboard. I owe him, and you, nothing.

    I've offered my test data on the internet. I don't have anything else to offer.

    As I said before and I'll say it again: if he wants to spend hours answering this question, and if I get a free stab to call him biased in the new topic he makes, then yes, I'll change my tune. But we all know he's just trolling me.

    What, you think I have the test data you want or something? That these fuel test results magic themselves out of the air? Someone actually has to take the time and do this test.

    Now if you address their claim then this whole matter is put to bed. But by all means, carry on insulting them

    Lulz. I owe you and him nothing. I did the tests in the top of the page and I stand by my tests. I don't owe additional tests (let alone fucking hours of work) to anyone else.

    Do you think the temperature stays still? The temperature in my area is back up to 50F today, which if I started the gasoline test it would have negated the results. This shit changes per fuel type and and per temperature.

  • Efficiency test of my 2024 Prius Prime: Gasoline vs Electricity in my first week.

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  • All they said was they thought you might be biased, and you exploded

    Yup. Because it's not honest. It's clear the discussion is worthless at that point.

    If they can't even hold the pretense of an honest discussion, none of the words after will matter. So might as well get this over with and make it clear that I intend to end the discussion unless they back down from the bias accusations.

    Protip: if the other guy in a discussion thinks you are biased, it's a waste of time to engage in honest discussion. It doesn't matter if they are a MAGA conspiracy theorist or a fanboy or anything. The discussion goes nowhere and I'm confident it's a waste of time.

    And it's a waste of time, I need to make it clear in no uncertain terms that I'm ending the discussion ASAP.

    If you see my point about bias then I'm happy with the words I've selected. It's made it clear what I'm mad about. Second tip: if someone is insulting you and making you mad, it's okay to be mad on the internet and show your emotions. We don't have to be robots.

    Now tell me, am I actually wrong in any of this?

  • Efficiency test of my 2024 Prius Prime: Gasoline vs Electricity in my first week.

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  • Note that winter-blend fuel has 10% or less energy in it. Summer-blend fuel has the most energy. And then E15 has less energy, depending on the current market of Ethanol vs Gasoline, you'll get a little bit more or less energy out per gallon of gasoline.

    The variance is expected. No two gallons of gasoline is exactly the same, there's many blends in the USA and the blends change season-to-season, location-to-location, and even as the laws shift (0% Ethanol decades ago, 10% typically today, and a smooth blend up and down from there depending on what the gas stations decide).

  • Efficiency test of my 2024 Prius Prime: Gasoline vs Electricity in my first week.

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  • genuinely I’m sorry at how cross that makes you

    which is probably why I’m enjoying my car so much more than you seem to be.

    Yup. As I said before and I'll say again. Fuck you. You are a fucking child and I'm happy to have called you out on this.

    Grow the fuck up. Don't pretend to issue apologies when you clearly have no intention on following through. You can't even get through your apology post before deciding to attack again.

    I've dealt with your kind before and I'll continue to call you out on it.

    But don't worry. You didn't fail any expectations of mine. I never expected you to pass this simple test.

    Come back when you actually have evidence to share and more than just insults.

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  • I’m sorry for making you cross

    Lulz, No you're not. Every fucking EV asshole talks the same as you do. You're probably congratulating yourself for triggering me. Don't worry, I'm not a dumbass. So I'm making sure I call you out on it.

    But seriously dude, it takes a lot of time to do these tests and just blatantly fucking accusing me of bias? And you're not even taking it back? Fuck you man.

    Or do you at least take back your insinuations of bias? I did this test, I'm publishing this here on Lemmy. I'm proud of what I accomplished and will defend it. And your accusations of bias are not going unnoticed. You take it back before I take by my curse words or "triggered" perspective. I get you're a fanboy but you're directly insulting my work here.

    Best part? I drove 100% electric last week, aside from the gasoline tests. I'm on the pro-EV side and pro-electrification side. But that's not enough for you fucking purists. I'm doing these tests so that others know how electrification works and have something closer to the honest truth. I've already bought the EV, the batteries and am working to have an electrified future.

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  • I still think it’s weird that you’re not calculating your own gas efficiency. Toyota have a vested interest in you thinking they’re doing a great job of that. I don’t know why you’re trusting their figures for gas but you’re supremely skeptical about their figures for electricity. Why would they be so inconsistently honest with you, and why are you so inconsistently skeptical?

    You fucking serious mate?

    Toyota figures are confirmed by consumer reports, car and driver, motor trend. Everyone is getting 50mpg even in the cold with the Prius.

    The reason I'm not doing it personally is simple: it's a 50mpg fucking vehicle. I need to drive 200miles to use 4 fucking gallons. That's a long time to do a silly internet debate.

    I'm going to do that eventually. But for fucks sake man, before criticizing my tests how about you think what the fuck I need to do to make effective tests here.

    I'll get a 200mi test done eventually. But not because you told me to do it. I always was planning on doing it but fuck man. You are a piece of shit for pushing this on me.

    How about this. You go rent your own fucking car, spend 4 hours driving it and testing it and come back here so that I can shit on your results and tell you how you did it wrongly just because it doesn't match my biases. Sound fair?

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  • My overall miles per gallon was 85mpg including electricity.

    The 53mpg is within other tests (ex: consumer reports), and is within expectations.

    Why does your car calculate your petrol efficiency but not your electrical efficiency?

    On the contrary. I don't trust Toyotas EV efficiency figure of 3.2mi/kwh because I'm measuring 2.2mi/kwh from the wall.

    Are YOU measuring the electrical output from the wall correctly? The cars battery has a figure but it's after the efficiency losses in the cable, heater and other such figures. My calculation includes all the losses except voltage sag in wires (1.5% estimate)

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  • I did read about wind energy making night time costs very low for some areas of the UK. Thanks for the graph, it helps me understand it.

    In my state in the USA, I have a choice between one price at all times (17c, all taxes and surcharges included) or a on-peak/off-peak pricing structure of 28c on-peak and 12c off-peak.

    Not as extreme as your every 30 minutes of change but if I squint I can kinda-sorta see my price differences kinda lining up with yours.

    My lows aren't as low and the highs aren't as high. They are also multiple hours long of on peak vs off peak.

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  • Yes but there is an easy solution. Just fill up with 2 gallons, rather than 10 gallons.

    Now you have the 100mi backup gasoline (why you bought a PHEV, right?), but still do EV every day. Every few months hit the HV button and burn off that fuel and fill up another 2 gallons.

    That being said: Prius Prime dual mode has 0-60 time of 6.6 seconds. When both engines are on your acceleration is amazing, on both low end 0-30 EV) and high end (ICE engine covers 30-70mph).

    So you want to be in auto mode (aka: use both engines mode) anyway for optimal driving experience.

    And now that I know that gasoline is cheaper in the winter anyway, maybe I push that 'use both engine' button more....

    If you ever need the 500mi gas tank for a long trip, just spend 5 minutes at a gas station. It's not like our gas tanks are locked behind 20+ minute chargers or whatever.

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  • Interesting. The internet suggests 22p/kwhr is the UK average ($0.27/kwhr in US dollar)

    I do have a time of use program that I could take advantage of to drop my night time / off peak prices. But my on-peak prices go up so much that even with the EV I'm not saving any money.

    I'm only going to drop from like 17c to 12c if I switch to the EV time of use program, or a change of like $1.70/night worth of charging to $1.20/night (10kwhr per typical day of travel)

    Do UK citizens pay generation + transmission + taxes like we do in the USA?

    8p/kwhr (10c/kwhr) is very close to the time of use / night time charge generation costs of my area. However, there are still local tax, surcharges, and transmission I have to pay for that would take that up to 17c when it's all accounted for.

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  • Of course! I plan to keep this car for around a decade, so there's plenty of opportunity next year to experiment again.

    Between the heater during charge + the heater during driving (!!!), we are getting hit twice by the cold weather efficiency demons.

  • Supreme Court Returns to a Culture War Battleground: Transgender Rights

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  • Not much else to do on that front. National politics have moved away from your community.

    We will try again in 2 years and 4 years respectively. But for now, we just gotta sit tight and build local bulwarks.

  • Supreme Court Returns to a Culture War Battleground: Transgender Rights

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  • Can you move to a blue state or other area where a community will protect you?

  • 'Huge fight': Warring factions inside Trump transition get into 'big blowup' at Mar-a-Lago

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  • Nazis came into power in the early 1930s. It required them to lose a major war in 1945 and the death of their cult leader before they stood down.

    It appears that one of our greatest mistakes was allowing the Nazis to become a comedy trope (like the Producers), showing them as incompetent buffoons. In reality, they were a decade-long threat that made the world extremely uncomfortable. Nazis don't fall over just because they're "the bad guys", and outside of some more-powerful superpower rising up and kicking their ass its not so clear how to make them fall.

    That being said: Trump and the MAGAs are NOT Nazis and thank god for that. They are Americans and ultimately I tie them closer to the Know Nothings or Whigs.

    The Presidents of the 1800s caused major atrocities over the Native Americans, and the USA then had a century of anti-Native American / bad-guy Indian savages to deal with. Of course, we won those battles so it wasn't such a big deal but the atrocities remain a black spot in our moral history. Given the trajectory of what we're witnessing here, I expect a similar thing for MAGA.

  • Rah rah Rasputin

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  • I'll double check the finale right after I get a brand new VHS player to check the tapes. But I do admit that I'm working off of memory here, lol.

  • Rah rah Rasputin

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  • Anastasia survived as an amnesiac who was taught by a con-man to act like a Princess again but then slowly regains her memories before shattering the phylactery of Rasputin because Rasputin's incompetent bat familiar couldn't catch it.

    You know. Once upon a deceeeeeeeemmmmmbeeeerrrrrrrrr!

  • Rah rah Rasputin

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  • The rumor of Rasputin and the Russian Queen is much much older than the song though.

    I don't think it was ever confirmed either. Tzar Nicholas did often leave to WW1 front to inspect troops (and other kingly duties), so it's just Rasputin and the Queen left in Moscow....

    It might be bullshit. It might not be. But Rasputin's family line were dealing with said rumors for a century or more.

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    Is the back and forth between Rick and Morty a good example of unmasking/being who they truly are, as they are?

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  • Somehow they wrote Hank Hill to be a very nonpolitical Texan. I'm not sure if on the spectrum describes him as much as he's a slightly exaggerated Texas hard ass character.

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    Is the back and forth between Rick and Morty a good example of unmasking/being who they truly are, as they are?

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  • I mean, King of the Hill is also a cartoon. A better one with more authenticity.

  • Temptation

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  • Actually, the Bible just says it's the fruit of a tree.

    It could have been an orange, pomegranate, or banana.