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My Avensis has been back on the road for 2 weeks after 6 months sitting in the drive with no MOT yet it wasuntil around 3.30pm that I finally got out the bucket, sponge, chamois, microfibres etc, etc. The sun was shining and after rebuilding a Renault Clios front suspension most of the morning and early afternoon it felt like good car cleaning weather lol. Btw that's my dog, Shadow who figured I needed a hand by trying to drink the water coming out the hose 😊😊😊😊. She looks ok from 20 yards away but up close you can tell the paint needs work, the alloys refurbed too. She needs lowering too :)

if you have an iphone it will read out your text messages but you cant use the reply function, when its connected to the car bluetooth, go to your bluetooth settings, select the toyota touch and turn on the option thats turned off, cant remember what its called but there is one there to do it, other than that, if you dont have the sat nav (i didnt get it either as i use googe maps on my phone) there isnt a lot iv found. the touch and go 2 (the one with the sat nav) has internet tethering options as there are facebook apps etc apparently hope this helps and it would be nice to know of other things these can do, it does seem like a waste of tech

On 28 Feb I was at our Toyota dealer. The showroom and outdoor sales area were awash with 15 reg's ready to go on the 1 march. Lots of hybrid yaris and auris. Even auris touring sports but no PIP and only 1 prius.

It does and it will and it's a very grey area. The car adjusts to all sorts of other sources; outside temp, coolant temp, engine temp, battery temp, cabin temp, draw on the a/c, what state of charge the battery is etc. If it's low the car will err more on trying to top the battery up and will switch the engine on quicker or earlier. If the battery is totally full as in 8/8 bars at the top end of that scale the car will run as if in EV mode right upto 45 mph (EV mode is normally 31 mph) with much quicker acceleration than the restricted EV mode normally offers and much more than the small amount of electric only drive you can 'force' by gentle acceleration. This is because the car desperately tries to burn off that excess charge. Once the charge reduces the car slowly starts to return to normal. You need a long, steep and fast hill for this to happen. I know of only one near me that it's guaranteed to occur on and I live in a hilly part of the world. You'll also get a slight insight into similar workings when you try and engage EV mode by pressing the button. When the car is cold (relatively) EV mode will kick out at 20 mph. When the car, and importantly the HV battery is warmed up, the car will allow EV mode to be selected upto 31 mph. But if the battery gets too warm or is used too often or the a/c is on too high, it won't allow you to select EV mode full stop. It's a very well designed computer program with many many variables, hence why it is said that one should leave the car to decide what is best for economy as you can't fool it long term.

If this picture works it should confirm what you've just said; It's the true percentage state of charge of the battery against the displayed bars.