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Is there anyone familiar with the Lexus RX 400h? What are the do's and don'ts of this car, and I am unsure if it's available in Nigeria. I got it from the UK.

Do you guys think it was a nice choice of car? I am currently using a Freelander gotten in the UK about 10 years ago.

If u wan to buy any hybrid car and remain rich. Pla buy hybrid car from 2017/2018 models.cos hybrid of 2003 till 2013 sef the battery don dey on its last leg and in naija ifj buy am direct toks.i give u just 1 year.no be curse.just a year and your shakara go end.to buy replacement battery.just make sure say your 3m dey available.and to repair na waste of time.
Ogbeni go buy normal petrol car

Abbeytoy:
Is there anyone familiar with the Lexus RX 400h? What are the do's and don'ts of this car, and I am unsure if it's available in Nigeria. I got it from the UK.

Do you guys think it was a nice choice of car? I am currently using a Freelander gotten in the UK about 10 years ago.

It is not fuel economical at all. All other conditions being well.
Not like it doesn't save fuel at all.

The way it works is that when the battery has got some juice and you are on low speed and not climbing, the system switch to battery until its out of juice or you are climbing of speeding higher relatively. A very good battery set does go for more than 2 miles max. A weak battery set? Half a mile you won't even get.

Now the issue is nobody arrive his/her home at high speed except your house is by the highway. So, as you approach your house, it'll probably be on battery unless it's already out of juice. In many case, you'll arrive house with very low juice. Now no battery loves been on low juice sitting around for long. Slow battery degradation will be happening as far as the condition i narrated is happening.

The case is worse if you don't drive your car for couples of days. So, the only way to mitigate battery degradation issue is to run your engine to juice the battery until you have juice up to half and you must make sure you don't juice the batteries to the brim while the car is sitting around over long time because batteries don't like that as well.

As you can see, the little fuel you've saved will still later be consumed if you find yourself in this circumstance that makes your car sit around for some couple of days consecutively.

The best hybrid cars to buy are they Plugin Hybrid EV (PHEV). Their higher battery capacity and improve technology provides for larger juice and when you are at a destination you can plugin the car to a wall outlet and charge if possible.

Other issue is that if any EV component part breaks down, they are not always on the easily affordable side.

Other than these few issues you are driving a car with a cool modern ecofriendly technology.

AfDapone:
It is not fuel economical at all. All other conditions being well.
Not like it doesn't save fuel at all.

The way it works is that when the battery has got some juice and you are on low speed and not climbing, the system switch to battery until its out of juice or you are climbing of speeding higher relatively. A very good battery set does go for more than 2 miles max. A weak battery set? Half a mile you won't even get.

Now the issue is nobody arrive his/her home at high speed except your house is by the highway. So, as you approach your house, it'll probably be on battery unless it's already out of juice. In many case, you'll arrive house with very low juice. Now no battery loves been on low juice sitting around for long. Slow battery degradation will be happening as far as the condition i narrated is happening.

The case is worse if you don't drive your car for couples of days. So, the only way to mitigate battery degradation issue is to run your engine to juice the battery until you have juice up to half and you must make sure you don't juice the batteries to the brim while the car is sitting around over long time because batteries don't like that as well.

As you can see, the little fuel you've saved will still later be consumed if you find yourself in this circumstance that makes your car sit around for some couple of days consecutively.

The best hybrid cars to buy are they Plugin Hybrid EV (PHEV). Their higher battery capacity and improve technology provides for larger juice and when you are at a destination you can plugin the car to a wall outlet and charge if possible.

Other issue is that if any EV component part breaks down, they are not always on the easily affordable side.

Other than these few issues you are driving a car with a cool modern ecofriendly technology.

Thank you so much for this. You've been the only person who break things down for understanding. Curious to ask, are you a teacher?

Abbeytoy:
Is there anyone familiar with the Lexus RX 400h? What are the do's and don'ts of this car, and I am unsure if it's available in Nigeria. I got it from the UK.

Do you guys think it was a nice choice of car? I am currently using a Freelander gotten in the UK about 10 years ago.

I used to have one with an '08 plate.

Sold it in late March because of battery issues and the fuel economy. It was a 3.3L engine that gave me between 25 - 30 mpg, compared to another car with 1.6L engine that regularly did 60 mpg (diesel engine though).
So that was kind of a big deal for me as I make a lot of long distance travels.

There's of course the premium Lexus feel (powerful engine, sound systems, leather seats and trims) to consider on the plus side 🙂

Tinyemeka:
I used to have one with an '08 plate.

Sold it in late March because of battery issues and the fuel economy. It was a 3.3L engine that gave me between 25 - 30 mpg, compared to another car with 1.6L engine that regularly did 60 mpg (diesel engine though).
So that was kind of a big deal for me as I make a lot of long distance travels.

There's of course the premium Lexus feel (powerful engine, sound systems, leather seats and trims) to consider on the plus side 🙂

I don't travel, just my state..

Hospital and some occasions once in a while.

I work from home