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Originally Posted by lem144
I'm on my second tank and the display is reading out 32.2. How crappy is that. And this is mostly city driving, feathering the accelerator as much as possible.
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In my experience there are only certain times you want to feather the pedal, definitely not all the time:
- If traffic is moving very slow, feather to keep the engine from starting.
- You've reached 40mph and have backed off the pedal to let the car fall back to EV
- Maintaining highway (or back road) speed so instant FE guage needle rides low
Being too lite while accelerating, climbing hills won't help. The analog FE guage is a really good indicator. If you are feathering the pedal and the needle is riding high, then why bother continuing to feather as your mileage is currently sucking anyway. Get it up to speed quicker so the needle will drop down quicker.
If you're in brutal stop and go traffic though, maybe that's as good as it will get. I am usually able to do EV about 15% - 25% of the time and I'm keeping steady in the 38-40 range on my current tank.