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I drove the Outlander PHEV for Mitsubishi Switzerland in order to figure out if the combined range of 824 kilometers (or 512 miles) can be reproduced on the road. We charged the battery and filled the tank. I drove the vehicle from Härkingen (Switzerland) to Amsterdam and refueled the car (45.17...

Hi everybody, just to give you a inside view: the drive was performed from 4 pm until 5 am the next day. I only stopped for photo shots and dinner. DRL were on, headlights were on from 8:30 pm to the end of the drive. Major cities crossed were Basle, Colmar, Metz, Liege, Eindhoven and...

Practical 'real time' consumption of different users/owners can best be checked on www.spritmonitor.de So far my best all electric driving distance was a 48 km loop with ~ 1400 feet vertical gain/drop on a rainy 8°C day in Switzerland... For 52 kms You definitely need a light foot, coast...

It's 1.9 L PLUS 13.4 kWh per 100 kilometers! The 827 kilometer (some sources claim 824 kms) combined range consists of 52 electric powered kms plus 775 gasoline only kms. 45 L : 7.75 = ~ 5.8 L per 100 kms (hybrid mode only consumption/no external battery charge). If you do 1/3 of your travel in...

:?: So far I covered 1700 plus kilometers with the PHEV 'NAVIGATOR' edition in rather cold weather (+7º C to - 18º C) in mostly alpine environment. Average 'actual payoad' was 300 lbs. Up to now I wasn't able to get the 824 kms combined distance out of one full tank of gas 45 L plus one full...

It's a common mistake with hybrid vehicles that fuel consumption values only are published. In order to reasonably judge high mpg or low litre numbers, the amount of kWh has to be considered. But: the latter value hardly ever gets published. Now, a PHEV Outlander can be used for commuting with...