Re: City MPG
My driving situation is very similar except I am in Canada so it is cold here.
My daily driving to work is about 7 KMS(one way) with about half a dozen stop signs and about that many lights. My only straight coasting road is about 2 KMS if lights are in favor. With 95% driving like this in city, I got about 44 MPG (Imperial) and 36.7 MPG (US) on my first dealer supplied tank.
I just found something and I am not sure if this always true or not. After ICE is warmed enough and with pulse and glide technique, you can run TCH on pure Electric mode. Yes everyone knows this. But what I am experiencing is that after ICE is little warm, TCH may not go in EV mode all the time even after usual pulse and glide technique and full charge on hybrid battery. What works for me is that if TCH is not going back in EV mode, I stop completely and wait few seconds until ICE turns off. Then if I try pulse and glide, it works and goes in EV mode. It looks like some time TCH compluter gets confused and won't turn ICE off despite all right things. So by stopping and waiting for few seconds it comes back to normal.
I am still not 100% on this but this is just my second tank and I have about 1000 KMS on ODO meter so still learning.
All experinced users please share your thoughts on this.
Thanks
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