Your guess is as good as mine. I don't have anyone riding in the back so I'm not concerned about it... Good to know all features though.

 

My understanding is that it uses the seat sensor for the front passenger seat, and the door sensors for the rear, but with that said, I thought the ES didn't have S-Flow, so you learn something new every day...

 

I'm still not certain it does based on my search of the manual.

 

I don't even see that option in the climate screen

 

Can you tell us exactly where to locate this setting on an ES and how to get there?

 

unless its a separate option which I doubt, im going to say the ES does NOT have Sflow.

 

I went out and spent about 20 minutes looking for it in climate and everywhere else. I couldn't find it.

 

Bingo. Jimv83 - do you have an ES??

 

Could it be a feature that is only available on the ES300h? I believe that that is what jimv1983 has.

 

Anything is possible.

 

S-flow on ES300h Luxury

 

So its either a separate option or only on the hybrid. Wonder why either of those would be the case??

 

It makes sense, if fuel economy is a priority on the hybrid, that this would be a hybrid feature. In your home, if you shut off the heating registers to rooms that are not occupied/in use, you will save marginally on air conditioning and heating costs. Similarly, in a car, if you shut off the flow of air to parts of the car that are not occupied, the AC system should have to work a bit less hard, and there should be some marginal savings in fuel economy.

 

If you do a Google search and ask "what is Lexus S flow" you'll find numerous posts from Club Lexus going back to 2013... Does not appear to be available on the ES 350 but several other models.

 

Illogical then because we have it on our 17 RX where fuel economy is no priority for sure. No big deal - I doubt it saves much of anything honestly.