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Hi Tony, we took our RX to France last year and had no difficulties with the assist features eg lane tracing, lane warning, headlights etc. However the car is supposed to recognise where you are and amend the speedometer to km/h (assuming it’s set to auto). Ours didn’t, so I had to manually adjust it- obviously a first world problem 😀. Hope you enjoy your trip

Hi Alan, it’s great to meet a fellow spreadsheet guru 😀 and thanks for sharing your insights. I think that you and I are aiming to calculate different outcomes. My approach is to try to calculate/estimate the car’s underlying hybrid mpg once the pure EV range has burnt off. My data since ownership last July now shows a total of 6,200 miles, 364.62 litres (80.2 gallons) and 1,140kWh of electricity. The car is showing a trip of 2.7 miles/kWh thus I have, in theory, covered 3.078 miles from my purchased electricity (2.7 x 1,140). This leaves 3,122 miles (6,200-3,078) covered by 80.2 gallons; giving a hybrid economy of 38.93 mpg As my old maths teacher used to say QED (quite enough data, thank you)…😂

Hi Alan, firstly I’m sure I’m not clever at all! However I’m intrigued to know roughly what electricity tariff you are on; is it one of the cheaper overnight ones? I’ve tried a little exploratory maths on your data by reversing the amounts spent on petrol and electricity and assuming some underlying range rates - let me know what you think and where I may well be wrong. So, if the £65 was spent on electricity at a tariff of say 25p/kWh that would mean 260kWh which if my experience of getting 2.7 miles/kWh is near accurate would cover a total of 702 miles. Then changing £255.82 to petrol at £1.669 per litre would give 33.7 gallons, which at say 40mpg (maybe normal hybrid) would cover 1,348 miles. Grand total would then be only 2,050 miles if I change the electricity tariff from 25p to 7.5p the total mileage would increase to 3,688. So I think that there’s still some refinement needed to our calculations 😉 Cheers, Kevin

Hi David, I’ve been puzzling over the same calculation myself and have ended up with a slightly different outcome from your recent data based upon my methodology. However as with most mathematics it’s not a precise science…. I would start by subtracting the EV mileage 53.9 from the total mileage of 150.8 giving 96.9 miles Then using the mpg from the car of 51.8 and dividing this into the total mileage of 150.8 we get 2.91119 gallons used (bearing in mind that the car is probably inaccurate with its calculation). Then dividing the derived ICE miles of 96.9 by the derived gallons, 2.91119 I get an underlying ICE mpg of 33.3 Please feel free to mark my homework 😉

Yesterday I managed to get 43.6 miles of EV driving albeit with 100% charge the car was showing 49.7 miles range as I left…. but then I used the heater, the heated steering wheel and the wipers so all in all pretty good. With the slightly warmer weather my EV economy has improved from 2.6 to 2.7 miles per kWh having now covered 6,200 miles in total.

My understanding is that both the USB sockets inside the charging cubbyhole should work for AA. I’ve attached a couple of extracts from the manual that may help.

This was my experience also.

You are correct that purchase incentives have been removed from BEV/PHEV vehicles. Dealers are still able to offer discount and pass on their manufacturer rebates to offer improved prices when it suits them as they approach their sales targets. Lexus still operates a dealer rather than agency structure, thus dealers can, and do, compete for business. With regard to your point about the opaqueness of lease/PCP deals I would expect that the deposit and underlying interest rate charged within the calculation must be shown before committing to the deal. However as you say on a simple headline table as you provided it is quite possible that there are differences hidden beneath the surface.

I would assume that the desirability of the 450h+ would produce a much higher residual value at the end of the contract compared with the 350h models. Thus the significantly lower monthly payments despite the probably higher interest charge of the original capital sum.

Sorry if you are already aware that by toggling the HV/EV button it should force the car to run in either of those modes. Having said that with the car in EV mode I and others have experienced the car running in HV when there’s enough EV charge remaining (this is to be expected according to the manual). Also I’ve noticed when in HV mode the car will occasionally drop into EV mode but this is mainly when going slightly downhill on a motorway or at low manoeuvring speeds. Hope you can solve the conundrum.

This is my status following the charge yesterday….. keep the faith 😂

I agree that the weather has helped to increase range, but also it’s worth noting that last summer when I purchased the car the expected range was showing 41-42 miles and that it has steadily improved since.

Thanks for the heads up about the new version. I’ve not had much joy using the online version on my iPad as the search and page jump functionality doesn’t seem to work very well. My dealer downloaded the full version and emailed it to me in two parts which I’ve found very useful. I’m also a confirmed Luddite that still prefers paper and being able to flick back and forth between the index and other pages!

Hi Tom, if you search on Lexus Parts Direct you’ll see that it’s available there…. at a price!

I’ve checked that the manual with reference PZ471-U0142-EN is in fact a user guide, which is a cut down version of the full manual.