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Little update. On the way home from my parents, I stopped at the ATM then went to my house. Probably 20 mile trip and later at night so next to no traffic. 45mph there, 45 mph most of the way back, then I did 40mph for a bit. Car ran in EV mode down to 53.5% before the engine kicked back on, seemed like it took 2-3 miles for it to charge the battery back to around 59% but the MPG did seem to jump up quite a bit from that cycle. It seems like I couldn't get it to do that closer to my house, there's some small hills so might be too much of a load to keep it in EV mode at those speeds. Either case the trip on the scan gauge reported almost 61mpg.
I have warmer temps coming in, so I'm expecting the average mpg for trips to increase a fair bit with temp. It would be neat to data log with the scan gauge mpg figures per trip and log things like outside temp, starting engine temp, distance, etc to get a reasonable idea of mpg vs weather. Lot to log manually but I guess that's possible too.
I really need to do that EV button mod, I think in some situations pushing the car into EV mode to run off battery could be a net gain. It seems like the engine doesn't recharge the battery too fast, but when traffic allows, using EV mode then switching back on the engine to simulate a pulse and glide basically would probably help mpg overall. Of course if traffic is clear, normal pulse and glide would probably be more efficient.
I used to use neutral a lot, but now I find myself hitting the sweet spot pretty well for the engine off costing. For the speeds higher than the limit it shows the engine charging the battery and it seems to coast pretty well as well. That might be part of how I've bumped up my mpg a little, the other part I'd blame the weather on lol.
Getting closer to the next fill up. I'm hoping to be averaging around 50mpg for the tank this time with more or less a stock car.
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