2024 Toyota Prius Plug In Hybrid | Is Toyota Correct?

We drive the Toyota 2024 Prius Prime Plug-In Hybrid and see if it lives up to the all the hype around PHEVs in the market place? Or is this car secretly a wolf in sheep's clothing? Does Toyota have the correct formula?

2024 Toyota Prius Prime XSE - Price as Tested 47,171$

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[MC-gjfg]

The typical person who lives close to work and rarely drives long distance gets the best of both worlds with a plug in hybrid. You use no gas at all, sometimes several months on end, but if something crops up and you need to drive somewhere distant you don't need to worry about whether the battery will run out or where you'll need to to to charge and how long that'll take. The car seamlessly goes into hybrid mode during these uncommon long distance trips at over 50 mpg, which isn't too shabby. Speaking personally, as a bonus I can charge for free where I work. This car is at the top of my list, but availability and a lack of discounting has stayed my hand up to this point.

[TheLeoFoss]

I live in Ottawa and have the 2024 Prius Prime (supersonic red) which i bought in February this year, after an 18-month wait. Currently I'm in
Toronto visiting
I found most of my driving in Ottawa is solely on electric. In fact, I believe the carbon tax rebate is exceeding my entire gasoline expenditure. Driving from Ottawa to Toronto on gasoline resulted in 4.8 l/100km even with the air conditioning on.
I love this car.
A few minor annoyances: the cruise control button on the steering wheel is small, and you need to take your eyes off the road to turn it on, or adjust it. The display behind the steering wheel is blocked partially by the steering wheel.
But the semi-self-driving relieves a lot of the stress in driving long distances. The safety features are a bit annoying but I do appreciate them anyway,
Overall this is a wonderful car.

[NickAbbot.]

PHEVs are the away. The world is not ready for total EVs. I love my 2024 Prius Prime. It’s clean with range.

[appelfrieter]

It's Toyota, not Tayota or Thai yoda :-)

Just teasing.. great vid! The blue is growing on me.

[christophermason]

I purchased one because of the crazy high motorway charging prices in the UK that can be up to 90p per kwh. I am hardly ever putting gas in the tank except when I do a long journey, and when it switches to gas its using 30% less fuel than a regular petrol car. I wentfo r the smaller more efficient wheels but upgraded to the premium white pearl paint. In the UK we have 240V and I charge it overnight on super cheap 8p per kwh electricity in 5.5 hours off a standard power outlet. Takes just under 4 hours on a 7KW charger at work. Last week I managed to travel 47 of my 53 mile commute on pure EV. Im hoping that in the summer when its not using the heating in 3C it will make the full journey on pure electric.

[DanLetts]

I agree. I went with a plug-in hybrid because I live in an apartment and charging can be a problem for us apartment dwellers. I’m able to trickle charge at work, so I drive it as an EV most of the time. But it’s great to have the engine for longer drives

Either way I rarely use the engine

[ElleyElley-etky]

Toyota Prius is a fantastic car with a made reputation and stereo typed. There's a reason why most 🚕 taxis in the states are Toyota Hybrid.. Id have this over any German overrated cr4p any day. 38 years on the tools, great cars

[herehere]

View from the front is futuristic car.

[paulvansteenberghe]

In colder climates when your battery is lucky to give 2/3rds of its rated capacity and the fact that you should only be using roughly 3/4 of the capacity (10% - 85% charge) a plug-in hybrid makes a lot of sense.

[Komainu]

Thank you for keeping an open mind, let me tell you it's so jarring when you want to try and do your part in being responsible in looking at a hybrid or PHEV and going to forums only to be shamed for even considering something other than a BEV.

Like do people not understand that there is a whole class of people who just cannot swing a BEV? Like it's not really a choice if you rent home (good luck convincing your landlord to spend money to put in a level 2 charger) or even own something like an apartment / condo. I live in an apartment and there are zero chargers available. While my work place parking lot does have a few chargers they are for customers only.

I am hopeful that in the future more charging infrastructure will be bult out but currently that is not in the cards and so a hybrid is the best that I can do. My current ride has 124K miles, a Prius hybrid would save me more than 2, 000 gallons of gas. I think that's a great start.

[sleekitwan]

The Toyota hybrid drive system, not actually having a pulley-and-belt setup, is decent. I bought a gen 3 because I find petrol/gasoline cheaper to create heat than the sort of battery capacity and price presently being asked for. But, I am prepared and able to perform maintenance. My daughter, I have persuaded to buy electric, an actual BEV. That reduces repairs and ongoing costs to brakes, in practice, and if my Prius experience is a guide, you won’t buy many new brake parts, mainly it’s dismantling and cleaning and re-greasing etc. Pure BEV makes most sense for people not needing towing, not possessing off-road maintenance, and wanting to keep their spine and hips in decent shape ie not balancing on one buttock to do manual gearshifts, as we all do here in the UK. The electric motor with a fixed gear ratio, is the best option for absolute transmission reliability.

Our mandatory tests here in the UK annually are termed an ‘MOT’. The number one failure of used vehicles I buy, or run, is handbrakes and brakes/suspension in general. The number one ‘worry’ about buying automatic transmission vehicles for me, the big cost liability, is the transmission itself. The best I ever had was a VW Passat 4-speed conventional unit, and it ran for about 190, 000 miles before dying. However, I didn’t get it until 123, 000 miles, and it hadn’t had transmission oil changes very often - maybe once. I nursed it back to life by doing a couple of good fluid changes.

If your car is just transport, maybe with a bike rack of the sort that fits to the rear hatch etc, and maintenance is not easy for you, BEV is the really good way to go. Once you decide you want to tow something, you are in a tricky area. An expensive area! I bought my Prius 3 for the robust differential-like auto transmission (effectively nothing to go wrong if you change oil a lot, no friction plates etc), and because ICE units are great at making heat (80% efficient as a boiler!). Good luck, I think this Prius is a little short on headroom for our family and the boyfriends they have, but otherwise a lovely vehicle.

[amill]

The phone charger is the slot to the right of the gear selector.

[benoitlessard]

I must agree with you that’s a good looking car.

[MC-gjfg]

How do you determine how often you bring a plug in hybrid in for an oil change? If I have 5000 miles on the car but only 500 of those miles are with the engine on, do you just bring it in once per year since I've heard you should replace oil that often whether you've driven enough miles to warrant a change or not?

[bleaujos]

I live in Quebec, sometimes I drive 1000 km in a day. Not charging in winter and playing Mr Freeze while loosing time. I love my Prius Prime.

[ackerrj]

Suggest you review a 24 Corolla Hybrid LE. Its basically last years prius, dressed up in more conventional clothes. Same hybrid system with 1.8 litre proven engine. No glass roof, conventional dash with complete instrument cluster (conventional gages) steering wheel does not block them. I get 57-62 mpg. Not everyone wants to worry about battery level and range issues, or wait for a charge, or worry about if you forgot to plug it in or not. Toyota is working on a solid state bat which is supposed to have 1k mile range, and charge in 30 min... but not here yet. So meantime, I have gone with this, and saved USD$8k in cost over the prius... and basically, its a stealth prius without the drawbacks of the weird dash.

[linolemuel]

Is Absolutely Correct With The 2024 Toyota Prius Prime XSE Premium. The Hardest Part Though Is Deciding What Color To Buy

[HazzaALshamsi-sgjy]

can this car charge it self same like the camry hybrid or i should charge it all the time ?

[DrRussPhd]

Toyota has a Stop Sale order on the Prius . A rear door switch will open when it gets wet.

[hidetsu]

It's the present, nobody knows the future.