analcrocha
Novice Member
Hello!
I’m from Portugal, where the fuel prices have been going up non-stop (as well as everywhere else, but our salaries are not going up as well).
So, i’m planning on buying a PHEV. I’ve seen and liked very much Renault Captur e-tech, I think it’s really the best concerning eletric tech, and I would have bought it if it wasn’t for the non-existent boot.
And then yesterday I went on a test drive of MG EHS and I LOVED IT! It’s big and great and a great boot (in comparison to Captur).
But there are a couple of things that concern me. The objetive is driving in EV mode basically always, as I do around 25-45km per day, excluding the ocasional long trip.
As the seller told me, on cold days the thermic motor stars when the car is started to be warm and ready to go when needed. I also learnt from this forum that when the heater is on, the thermic motor is necessarly on.
My questions are:
If older owners could show long therm fuel and energy consumption would also be great!
Thank you all in advance!
I’m from Portugal, where the fuel prices have been going up non-stop (as well as everywhere else, but our salaries are not going up as well).
So, i’m planning on buying a PHEV. I’ve seen and liked very much Renault Captur e-tech, I think it’s really the best concerning eletric tech, and I would have bought it if it wasn’t for the non-existent boot.
And then yesterday I went on a test drive of MG EHS and I LOVED IT! It’s big and great and a great boot (in comparison to Captur).
But there are a couple of things that concern me. The objetive is driving in EV mode basically always, as I do around 25-45km per day, excluding the ocasional long trip.
As the seller told me, on cold days the thermic motor stars when the car is started to be warm and ready to go when needed. I also learnt from this forum that when the heater is on, the thermic motor is necessarly on.
My questions are:
- the fact that the thermic motor have to be on to do his thing doesn’t necessarily means that the car is being moved (at least exclusively) by that motor, right? As far as I understood from that graphic on the pannel that shows the energy flux, the thermic motor might be on and not putting energy for moving the car, just want to confirm that this is true
- having this in mind, and having also in mind that I want to drive EV mode as much as possible, what are the fuel consumptions that are expected for heating the motor and the heater itself for the interior of the car? Are they relevant?
If older owners could show long therm fuel and energy consumption would also be great!
Thank you all in advance!