davewins
Standard Member
I thought I'd post about my latest trip away without charging, to give you an idea of the MPG I got.
Trip is about 130ish miles away, mostly motorway with a couple of miles before the M5, and then about 20 miles of hilly devonshire countryside.
This trip, I went on EV to the M5, then when I got up to speed I turned on HEV mode and left it there for the duration of the journey.
When I arrived, I had 52 miles of electric left and the trip was 49mpg.
I then spent a week tootling around town, a trip up Dartmoor (HS PHEV did fit, although it got a bit hairy when I met a Tractor!), all on HEV mode.
This used electric/charged up electric and by the time it was time to leave there was still 48 miles of electric left. Some of the trips were 25mpg (up and down hills in dartmoor!), and others were completely electric (driving around towns).
Coming home, I decided to put it into EV mode to use up the electric miles - particularly as it's quite hilly getting back to the motorway which are usually quite high on MPG. When it used up all those miles (somewhere around Cullompton) it switched back into HEV mode and started charging again.
I found that if you drop to under 65 mph, it will turn off the ICE - but you also have to remove your foot from the accelerator to force it to do that. If you drive above 63mph, it will turn the ICE back on. There is a point that it will turn from HEV mode to EV mode - but I wasn't able to find the actual point it does that. When traffic was high and you had to slow right down - 40mph ish - it switched to EV mode, but that didn't happen often enough for me to find the actual "switch" point.
As the ICE is so quiet, and the switchover so smooth - it's also difficult to know the exact points that the ICE turns on and off!
Anyway - the resulting MPG of the return journey was 62 mpg.
All in all, I think that's pretty good. There were chargers around - but I wanted to see how it all worked without access to charging facilities.
On a previous journey, the trip down was EV until HEV kicked in, which resulted in 49 mpg, with the return (with 0 electric miles) was 42 mpg
So for me - the most efficient was to move to HEV on the motorway and leave it there until I come back home again.
Trip is about 130ish miles away, mostly motorway with a couple of miles before the M5, and then about 20 miles of hilly devonshire countryside.
This trip, I went on EV to the M5, then when I got up to speed I turned on HEV mode and left it there for the duration of the journey.
When I arrived, I had 52 miles of electric left and the trip was 49mpg.
I then spent a week tootling around town, a trip up Dartmoor (HS PHEV did fit, although it got a bit hairy when I met a Tractor!), all on HEV mode.
This used electric/charged up electric and by the time it was time to leave there was still 48 miles of electric left. Some of the trips were 25mpg (up and down hills in dartmoor!), and others were completely electric (driving around towns).
Coming home, I decided to put it into EV mode to use up the electric miles - particularly as it's quite hilly getting back to the motorway which are usually quite high on MPG. When it used up all those miles (somewhere around Cullompton) it switched back into HEV mode and started charging again.
I found that if you drop to under 65 mph, it will turn off the ICE - but you also have to remove your foot from the accelerator to force it to do that. If you drive above 63mph, it will turn the ICE back on. There is a point that it will turn from HEV mode to EV mode - but I wasn't able to find the actual point it does that. When traffic was high and you had to slow right down - 40mph ish - it switched to EV mode, but that didn't happen often enough for me to find the actual "switch" point.
As the ICE is so quiet, and the switchover so smooth - it's also difficult to know the exact points that the ICE turns on and off!
Anyway - the resulting MPG of the return journey was 62 mpg.
All in all, I think that's pretty good. There were chargers around - but I wanted to see how it all worked without access to charging facilities.
On a previous journey, the trip down was EV until HEV kicked in, which resulted in 49 mpg, with the return (with 0 electric miles) was 42 mpg
So for me - the most efficient was to move to HEV on the motorway and leave it there until I come back home again.
