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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
I think the Civic's relatively poor performance in both the comparisons might come down to the fact that neither loop started with a hot engine. The city route was "warm start", highway was "cold start".
I suspect the Civic's city numbers are pretty horrible [relatively speaking!  ] until autostop is operating.
I was following the Civic, prepared to "manually auto stop" the Mirage's engine if I saw the Civic's stop. But on our way through the city to the freeway, and it never did stop (I could always see the tail pipe vibrating). |
My guess on the Civic is that the hybrid battery is totally shot, but the "updated" BCM/ECM code hides it so the car will still run and not just code out.
It's probably throwing a hidden background charge into the battery almost constantly and rescaling the dash gauge to look like it's assisting as normal but only really giving you 8 amps or so.