Phevourite
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Much of Harvey's driving is done in pure EV mode. I have brought him to London twice now been intrigued by the mpg reading. I assumed before that what it gave was the consumption for the whole trip. I now realise that cannot be though as that would put the fuel consumption at around the low 20 something mpg. Also; based on previous measurements it suggests that the better I drive then the worse the consumption which does not make sense. Instead I now guess the consumption is the the non-EV part of the journey. Here are the numbers...
o The whole drive was 68 miles
o 25 miles of country roads, 8 miles of city driving and the rest motorway
o Kept the speed very constant and mostly below about 65 mph
o The car managed 60% on EV (so it said)
o That works out at 41 EV miles and 27 non-EV miles
o It claimed 57.8 mpg
o And 4.6kWh for electric consumption
If the 57.8 is for the non-EV parts of the journey then Harvey did manage 144.5 mpg for the whole trip (and ignoring the electricity used). I can believe this and it fits with the claimed official fuel consumption number. I am not so convinced that the batteries managed 40 miles though. Seems rather high. I alternated between "normal" and "save" modes. Using "normal" through the villages and the city. Watching the info display I could see that at times Harvey ran from batteries even in save mode and at other times had the engine driving the car and claiming to be re-charging at the same time. This suggests there is some charge/re-charge stuff going on there which could explain the high EV figure.
Anyone know what the mpg display is reading exactly? Anyone else seeing similar numbers?
o The whole drive was 68 miles
o 25 miles of country roads, 8 miles of city driving and the rest motorway
o Kept the speed very constant and mostly below about 65 mph
o The car managed 60% on EV (so it said)
o That works out at 41 EV miles and 27 non-EV miles
o It claimed 57.8 mpg
o And 4.6kWh for electric consumption
If the 57.8 is for the non-EV parts of the journey then Harvey did manage 144.5 mpg for the whole trip (and ignoring the electricity used). I can believe this and it fits with the claimed official fuel consumption number. I am not so convinced that the batteries managed 40 miles though. Seems rather high. I alternated between "normal" and "save" modes. Using "normal" through the villages and the city. Watching the info display I could see that at times Harvey ran from batteries even in save mode and at other times had the engine driving the car and claiming to be re-charging at the same time. This suggests there is some charge/re-charge stuff going on there which could explain the high EV figure.
Anyone know what the mpg display is reading exactly? Anyone else seeing similar numbers?