This YouTuber has been consistently driving long distances pretty much every single day in his Toyota Corolla hybrid and had clocked up 481,000 miles on the hybrid car.
He decided to test the battery capacity and how reliably it still worked after it’s obscene amount of miles, and after leaving it idle for a couple of days without charging it.
Even though the battery of the Toyota Corolla didn’t prioritize charging and instead other parts of the car, it remained reliably consistent.
The YouTuber showed his subscribers how to best care for a hybrid car like a Toyota Corolla to keep it running so efficiently even after hundreds of thousands of miles.
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Telling the truth about the Toyota Corolla
American YouTuber Michael L Rhodes went viral for his honest review of his hybrid Toyota Corolla after he had completed a lot of long-distance travel.
481,000 miles later, the content creator decided to put the Corolla to the test and leave it idle for a couple of days to see whether the battery would hold up and whether fuel consumption would stay low.
After turning it on after leaving it for 3 days, he remarked on the fact that the battery was at 51 percent and that even though the battery was not actively charging at that moment, it was prioritizing heating the engine and the passengers inside.
Obviously, as he was sat still and didn’t go anywhere, the fuel efficiency was low, however the car did a good job of informing Michael exactly what the fuel consumption per mile would be at any given time, and the Toyota Corolla is generally incredibly fuel-efficient.
How to best look after your hybrid
Michael also used the video as an example of how best to look after a Toyota Corolla hybrid, or really any kind of hybrid vehicle that has a rechargeable battery and a combustion engine.
Pointing out that under the back seat is where you can find the battery, Michael showed his viewers how to clean the vent to stop it from overheating and reminding hybrid users to make sure they do this regularly, he also warned against seat covers and how they could block air flow.
Michael suggested that hybrids need their water pump replaced at around 100,000 miles and transmission every 30-50,000 miles.
This is the perfect work car as it is so incredibly reliable and even put to the test by Michael, it proved itself spectacularly.
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