Recent content by SteveEV

I really enjoy and appreciate feedback from more seasoned hybrid owners, thank you. I’ve now settled into suburban EV only driving, charging at home 2-3 times a week, using no petrol and my average usage has come down to 5.8 litres/100km and falling. My wife and I also love the quiet comfort of...

Thanks, and sorry for the slow response. I’ve now got about 2,300km on the car, about 1,800 of which was country driving at 100-110km/h except through towns, using hybrid mode, mostly on default but with a bit of medium option to charge up the battery. The remainder was all metro driving on EV...

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Thanks! Why isn’t this sort of info in the book??? Cheers

Thanks everyone. Seems I should be expecting around 6-7 l/100km on country trips, using Auto mode and cruise control. Just have to live with it and revel in the zero petrol driving around town using EV! Which is what I do mostly anyway. One more question: the manual recommends staying below a...

I’m taking my three week old PH EV Excite on its first long trip and am frankly disappointed at the petrol use. Yesterday I drove 300 km and used 20.5 litres of fuel, which works out to roughly 7l/100km in round figures. Vastly different from the promoted 1.7l/100km. Admittedly part of the drive...

Thanks everyone, I’ll be using EV setting around the suburbs, charging at home, and using the Medium charge mode on longer trips. May use a heavy duty extension cable occasionally on trips if I’m at a motel or a friend’s house. Appreciate your help.

Thanks again Jto Hi ronmaz, thanks for this. To clarify, there are three recharge settings, default, medium and high. So use medium on the open road? I haven’t been out of Adelaide in it yet so it will be interesting to see the Satnav on the way to Melbourne. Thanks for the radio tip too. And...

Thanks Jto, I’ve been using EV mode on short trips and was planning on switching to automatic for an 800km drive I’m doing next week. Does that sound right? I charge up at home, normal three point plug, every 2-3 days. Have you ever used an extension lead to increase the reach of the cable...

I’ve had my hybrid for ten days and mostly love it…two questions of the many I have: how can I make the Far version of the Satnav, and the high battery recharge mode, defaults? A nuisance having to reset every time I drive. Thanks! Another question, is there an on/off switch for the radio...