True, glacial acceleration and sticking to below 35 mph seem the limit for maintaining EV - but as you're generally in a 30 zone, not too much of a hassle (unless you have a boy racer behind you at the lights!). As you can only select it with a virtually full battery, and any sudden moves lose it, I am learning to leave it alone mostly.

It's a hybrid, not a plug in. The electric motor is there to help the ICE accelerate, not instead of it.

Hybrids report top EV speed, but it is like a 250+hp rating. Not of much importance for everyday driving, and more for bragging and marketing.

You can use just the electric but it requires significant patience and can only be for maybe a mile or so. I use electric only coming home from one direction that's roughly a mile and I use a lot of electric from the other direction that's about 1.5 miles. I don't worry about the recharge as when I leave home the next time the ice will start to warm up anyway and the distance will be far enough to recover the charge. It's surprising how much that can help overall economy.

Another difference in the ECO setting I just remembered not mentioning is it prevents the A/C from using the highest fan setting when set to Auto.

LDB... how are you making it along in the flooding?
I grew up in Clear Lake City.

I'm in Friendswood, not at all far from there as you know. We don't have any problems around here but it is extremely bad in many areas around Houston from what I've seen.

Hey LDB, loving the triple data badges - how did you get them...?

SteveMak walked me through it. Here's the instructions from the not everyone wants a small diesel thread. You could do even more than 3 but I figured those 3 covered pretty much everything anyone could want to know.

Let's see if I managed that, or wiped my data...!

Neither....I'll have another go when I'm on my laptop rather than my phone, cheers!