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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Thanks for the first-hand report, HiFlite!
Curious what you mean by this. I have done a fair amount of urban EV driving, and driving style made a huge impact on range in my experience. (As it does in any ICE car or hybrid.)
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The volt doesn't hypermile very well while the gas motor is running, the only way I have found to "hypermile" is to drive 35-55mph DWL with the gasser idling along and then hold 5 miles per KW once the buffer fills and the motor shuts off. Doing this can increase the 40mpg the car gets on its own to around 45mpg, it doesn't go much higher though, but then again I have never driven in temperatures sustained above 40 degrees outside either. Car may also be breaking in and I am told after the first oil change the car is a different animal (my first complimentary oil change will be in a few days due to the car being nearly 2 years old without driving a mile)
The volt hypermiles easily in EV mode when it is warm out.
Cold its almost better to drive inefficiently because of all the parasitic losses on non-user controllable things such as the battery warmer and erdtt.
(below 24 degrees and I draw 1-3kw with the lights off, heat off and car in neutral)
I have found I can get the parasytic losses to go away for a bit if I accellerate hard at every stop. I am guessing hard accel and regen warm the battery a bit, sadly they only stop it for a relatively short period of time.
Ah well.