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I bought a 2023 plug-in Subaru and switched RAV4
Paul in Oregon City, 07/29/2023
2023 Toyota RAV4 Prime SE 4dr SUV AWD (2.5L 4cyl gas/electric plug-in hybrid CVT)
We bought a 2023 plug-in Subaru Crosstrek and switched it out for a 2023 RAV4 Prime Plugin.
The RAV4 SE Prime has exceeded my expectations, and we have not yet bought gasoline, with 1,800 miles and it still shows and third of a tank of gas left in the tank. In an update 8/3/2024, we have now driven our RAV4 Prime near 11,000 miles and have only put in 33 gallons of gas. We have 3,800 … miles on this last tank of gas, purchased in a fill-up with a third of a tank still left. Again, we have taken lots of trips where we have use up electric and it just without feeling anything we are in hybrid mode, at the same speed. It appears that with 110-amp electrical plugin ever night we get on average 49-mile range of all electric driving. However, this is now summertime, and in the heat of the summer the batteries seem to collect a greater of the charge, giving us a greater range in all electric driving. In hybrid driving we appear to be getting greater than 40 MPG. Some of our longer round trips have had trips of 150 miles to the most part. My wife has a lead foot and her RAV4 is surely quick. After I retired, we have had a 2008 Prius, and then a 2013 Prius V (great cars) and Tundra and Tacoma trucks. We bought an Audi Q7, a great car but it was too expensive to own when I drove it so little. However, we thought as seniors ageing in place, we might go with a 2023 Subaru Crosstrek Plug-in and my wife was not happy with that decision, as it was too small and the batteries left little room in the trunk space.
It cost us some money, to swap out the Crosstrek with a RAV4 SE Prime, but now my CEO, CFO, and COO is now happy, and that makes life better. I should have been listening to my bride of 61 years, but the Toyota dealers wanted 5K over MSRP and that shoved me to the Crosstrek. We just wanted a new more reliable vehicle at this time and at our age, to enable travel with and the grand kids are gone, and the 2013 Prius V had over 150K in miles on it.
Our son had recently bought a new all electric car, and within his lifestyle, and his kids now in college, he now is experiencing the limits of all electric range and this lack of charging stations in all of the places he and his wife go. It has forced him to take a very long look his mother's RAV4 SE Prime, as a result.
The lack of availability of the RAV4 Primes and the ability for us to work a deal to switch out of the Crosstrek Plugin also influenced the features we got with the RAV4 Prime SE. We must say, that the RAV4 Prime is a bolder and good-looking car, and the functional space inside the vehicle is not compromised.
Update 02/02/2024, and edited, we went 3,200 miles before we had to buy gas, with the RAV4 Prime and it took only 10.5 gallons and I hand filled the gas to the brim, as I thought that it would take more gas. As we drove the RAV4 into the winter conditions, we only went 2,500 miles before we again had to put more gas into the vehicle and it took again, 10.5 gallons of gas. In winter condition, driving with the RAV4 Prime, and to get the full benefit defrosting and heat it needs the engine to warm up to aid in making that happen, so we are using the gas engine more in the winter.
However, the big difference between Crosstrek Plugin, is that it goes from EV to gas with with much less EV range and with barely attempting to go faster, so you are using the gas engine 90% more, with the Crosstrek Plugin. Also, the Crosstrek Plugin "batteries" reduce the net cube of rear storage area by maybe 40%, which made it much more difficult for my wife as she could not hold all of the shopping bags and our standard poodle when going to the store.
The total cost per mile of the RAV4 Prime is just excellent in comparison too, the Crosstrek Plugin. For Edmund's to rank a Crosstrek Plugin, higher than a RAV4 Plugin, is something that I cannot understand. In owning both of these 2023 Hybrid - Plugin vehicles and now getting close to 50 miles in all electric EV range with the RAV4 Plugin and having a total of 650-mile total range with a full charge and a full tank of gas is hard to replicate with any Hybrid Plugin cars. The ROI, and I think in those terms from my early business life, the total cost of ownership, to me makes the RAV4 Prime SE Plugin a Best Buy.
The RAV4 Plugin is my wife's car, and she is not a slow driver, and she is on a freeway's a lot in her activities, and she is going 75+ MPH in EV mode, as she has this lead foot, and it allows her to maneuver impressively. She likes how RAV4 performs and handles and as a small person in stature, she can get the seat up and forward and she likes the good vision she gets of the road. However, the only downside is me, in the passenger seat, as it is not as equally adjustable.
We have had some great cars, and my wife had a new Porsche 944 and loved it, up and until these grandkids that could not fit into it. I recently had a Audi Q7 and this was again a great car, but what the Q7 had, were these great memory seat that you could adjust anyway you wanted with both front seats. My wife could get into the Q7 and press one button and it would restore the seat to exactly where she liked it the best. When I got into the Q7, I could do the same thing. If the RAV4 Prime had that, there would be virtually no drawbacks, where couples share their vehicles.
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