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Originally Posted by benny
How do you drive differently in a hybrid? I'm still on my first tank of gas and I'm getting about 33mpg in my TCH. I don't drive far to work and half the drive to work it's cold--which probably has something to do with it. I coast to stoplights and don't accelerate hard. Are there any other special tricks? I saw a post somewhere on this list (I can't find it now) that said to the effect, "If you're not getting 42mpg you're not driving correctly." Well, my question is, what is "correctly?"
Benny
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Benny - I don't know where you're from but I'm in Minneapolis MN (fairly cold) and have but a 5 mile commute. These days I'm doing good to maintain 25mpg average given that the ICE runs all the time.
If you examine the MPG database information that you can see for a lot of people that get 35-38 MPG or more - you'll find that they drive further and more highway percentages and many live in warmer climates. I suspect that those of us in the Frost-Belt will get better warm weather mileage than the Sun-belt drivers as we'll have our windows down around town while they'll be running the AC.
Don't sweat it. All will be fine.. Only real trick I've learned is that you should accelerate up to a little faster 1-2mph over what you want to cruise at - then back off the throttle to change the gear reduction in the eCVT transmission and possibly promote the engagement of EV mode.
Enjoy your car..