wellygary:

 

Scott3:

 

I wouldn't pay too much attention to range - how far you are willing to run the tank low has a really big tank. A quick search turns up that your car has a 45L tank, so there is another 150km of range in your tank when before you do a 36L fill. (of course it is not). Based on my lexus hybrid, it is not unusual for the light to come on when you still have well north of 100km of fuel remaining.

 

Sounds like Toyota Behaviour, had great fun riffing with our kids on our last road trip... 

 

Road Sign: 180 km to destination... Trip computer 130Km of range, 

 

Fuel light comes on about 20km from destination, keep on driving......
When we filled it, there were still 11 litres in the tank according to the handbook specs

 

(60 litre tank, but everything is gauged off 50 , leaving a 10 litre margin )

 

Yeah, it is a well known Toyota thing to have a massive fuel reserve once the fuel light comes on. Not really a big deal for my application, as the loss of ~100km of monitorable range is not important to me (and my car has an analog gauge, if I really cared I could take a tote tank and run it to empty and mark the gauge).

But for those going serious remote places in the likes of aussie, particularly on cars with 8 step digital gauges, it can be a big deal. If you want to run a 200km monitorable reserve, this needs to be stacked on top of the Toyota unmonitorable reserve, which makes the cars usable range quite short.