Re: Pulse & Glide
Just to clarify, I make it sound like I troll about town using that technique, really it's just one road during my long commute that I make twice a week, coming home. Since there's virtually no traffic late at night and the timing of the lights mean that going the speed limit makes you stop at every light, I use that technique on that one road, for a space of two miles or so, and I don't try real hard to turn off the engine.
Reading about it, I'll have to try it out next chance I get, generally I don't try too hard to get the engine to turn off, we'll see how easy it is for me to do that.
Also, I know it's impossible to tell without the A/N, but when the battery is low, it seems to me that the systems do more to recharge it, which may make pulse and gliding more difficult, as it takes a more active role to recharge the battery.
The tricky part about doing the sustained part in the FEH, as I'm sure you know, is that traffic isn't that forgiving to a slow acceration like that, and to accelerate in the upper 30's to 40 in EV mode can be difficult. A good bump or getting too close to 40 and suddenly the engines on.
Last edited by Pravus Prime; 08-11-2005 at 11:55 AM.
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