A bit of fun today. In town, happened to pull up at the lights next to a 2017 Prius. Joked to the wife, "Look, I'm going to give this Prius a race" (fortunately she's easily amused). Pulled away slowly at exactly the same speed as Prius, both of us obviously attempting to keep it in electric. Held up everyone behind us for a bit as we slowly accelerated but the Prius driver seemed to find it as amusing as me.
He won by the way but I was rather heavily loaded.
Is this normal behaviour to try to keep it in electric mode around town using gentle right foot action, or should we j