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I posted this in another area as well but may be an old topic by now.
Well the weather was beautiful yesterday so we took a trip from Roswell GA to Athens GA w/approx 140 miles round trip. I knew my average mileage would drop some, it had to but I still can't be anything but impressed over the way the car's computer managed the gas and battery over the trip. The secret was following the instruction manual in setting a destination into the Nav (Sensus) system. When doing that it tells the cars computers not only distance, but expected speeds over the roads, elevations and grades, and temps along the route. I did it coming and going. On the 1st leg, I let the computers manage the trip the whole way and I could see in the display that when I got there (approx. 70 miles) I was still showing 73.3 average mileage and arrived w/right at 50% of charge left. Coming back, I just said "take me home best route" and when I got to the highway I set the computer to 'charge' the battery. I could feel something different start working under the hood then and over the period of about 20 miles my average mpg dropped down to 69 mpg. At that point I turned off the 'charge' in the system and went back to just 'hybrid' and let the computers manage everything. When I got home it still showed an average of 69 mpg overall. IMHO, it works really great entering a destination into the NAV, driving reasonably, and enjoying the drive. From where I live to pure highway driving was roughly 10-12 miles and the same returning. Where I went was only two miles off the highway. Part of the route was a state hwy going to Athens and had several lights (I think they knew I was coming and set them all on red) so several full stops along that part of the route. 1st image was awhile back when MPG was higher, and 2nd image was from end of yesterday's drive. I thought it was a good indicator of what CAN be achieved if you want to just relax and enjoy the drive on cruise control with the 'pilot control' on.
09-28-2021, 09:45 AM
2021 XC60 T8 mileage over 140 miles round trip
