That doesn't sound good.
A part known by the manufacturer to be faulty installed a few years ago fails, and the customer is responsible?
Nice.
Nothing like limping along as you try to move across several lanes on an interstate where everyone else is going 70.
Was the inverter designed to last only as long as the warranty?
What ticks me off more is why they even go into ‘Limp Home’ mode when the inverter fails. The reason should tick off owners too, particularly if it causes them an accident or close call. So here it goes:
1) The Hybrid battery is small and is not intended for continuous use - it is, for example, nowhere near the size of a Tesla battery. It might drive the vehicle 10 miles or so, and then the gasoline engine has to start up. The idea of the battery is to take energy that usually turns into heat (at the brake linings) in stop-and-go driving (city driving) and instead store that energy in the hybrid battery for the next green light. Doing so gives the car great mileage in city driving.
2) For long-distance highway driving, the battery is exhausted almost immediately and the car is direct-driven from its gasoline engine, which, by definition, must have sufficient power for that purpose. To repeat, if there is no battery power left, the gasoline engine is the propulsion source, and if the car still drives normally, then it is only because the gasoline engine is doing it.
3) So why the limp mode when the inverter dies, since it’s no different than having drained the battery? Answer - TO FORCE YOU TO GET IT FIXED. In other words, how do you get an owner to shell out 3,000 smackers to fix something that otherwise wouldn’t affect driving - something that only affects gas mileage, and then only in city driving. Answer - make the car drive like crap.
The one thing that I don’t know the answer to is whether Toyota forces ‘limp mode’ on the cars, or whether EPA does, as a condition of their mileage rating. But something tells me that its EPA.
Poor liberals, they got stuck paying for exploding golf carts because they’re stupid.
“recalled Felo, a salesman at an REI retail store.“
Even his job is a virtue signal.
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“I was lucky nobody was behind me because I would have been rear-ended,” recalled Felo, a salesman at an REI retail store. The car was towed to the dealer, which gave Felo the bad news: It would cost $3,000 to replace the shoe-box sized unit.
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Further down in the article it says a 2010 would be covered by an extended warranty from Toyota.
Used and working condition inverters are available on eBay for $130. A refurb with two year warranty is $800.
The Toyota Prius come from the factory with Obama, Hillary & Bernie bumper stickers on them.
Remove the bumper stickers and much of the internal friction will immediately disappear, thus causing the car to stop overheating.
A friend of mine move to the New mexico desert country. Twice she had to have her Prius rewired as the desert mice love to eat the soy based insulation covering the electrical wires.
I bought a 2015 Prius and drove it for 33,000 miles. The engine light kept coming on and I was nervous. I heard about the cost of the batteries and since I’m an old lady I was worried that I could not have board to replace them. So I traded it in for a RAV4. I love that car but I sure do notice the amount of money I spend on gas is a lot higher. I have more peace of mind though knowing I do not own a Prius
Libs, just keep saying to yourselves “we’re saving the planet. we’re saving the planet. we’re saving the planet”...
Great gas mileage. Zero to zero in sixty seconds.
Were there any Priuses parked in the upper levels of Notre Dame?
Askin’ for a fren.