Does remote start time get counted for mileage?

[dochawk]

but when you fill up and divide miles by gallons,

awe, shucks!

until I pasted it, I thought that it said mites per gallon, and was gearing up for a wisecrack about flea spray!

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[HeyBales]

We had a 2022 Escape Hybrid before we bought our Maverick. It did not count startup idle time in "This Trip" mileage.
But our 2025 Maverick Hybrid does.
We start it and see 2.4 mpg. Soon as you start moving (ie actually putting miles on the figure gets better usually settling at 40mpg by the time we get to town.

I think you are merely seeing the vestiges of a prior figure, or looking at the wrong figure.

There are no miles - it should be 0 miles per gallon.

You are probably not looking at instant MPG figure, but per tank figure, and it's a stuck figure until you move.

Also - that description of why you are sure it does count idle time on startup - includes nothing about time, but the MPG.

See prior post for proper test that was done.

 

[HeyBales]

I think we’re all aware of the concept of idling…

The point being, if you for example used a trip counter to estimate your MPG between fill-ups, and were comparing/calibrating that against actual usage, it would be completely messed up if you ever used remote start.

So it’s mildly annoying that it doesn’t count.

It's just merely using the fact the warmup wasn't part of the trip.

Because the warmup could time out.
Then you go out and start the truck and make a trip.

It'll be accounted in your miles to empty figure, since there is now less fuel in the math.
And it'll eventually be figured into the running MPG figure that is used in that calc - because it sees tank miles so far, gas used so far, so your avg is adjusted as slowly as it ever is.

 

[HeyBales]

This trip counts the miles traveled while the truck is IN DRIVE. if you take it out of drive "This Trip" is reset.
ETA: when the ice is off you will be getting 999.9 mpg!

Eh - never all the times I went over to pick up my son, went from Drive to Park, and waited 5-10 min for him, and then continued to home or store. It counted time the whole time I was in park, and it kept the mileage going the whole time.
When I finally got somewhere, and actually turned the truck Off to Acc or Off - then I got This Trip mileage displayed.
If I opened door and it was lost, I could turn back to On mode and see it again.
As long as I didn't go back to Start - I could run back out and do that.
In or out of Drive had nothing to do with it on the XLT - Start was the reset.

 

[HeyBales]

... I don't think it does. Today, remote started the truck about 1 to 2 minutes before driving off. It was 2 degress celcius drove 4km, 2km electic, and got a 6.5 l/100km. This is so much better than if I just jump in the truck start it and drive. So, I suspect the remote start fuel isn't counted.

Thoughts?

Thanks
Andrew

Does remote start time get counted for mileage?

Time has nothing to do with mileage. Or miles per gallon. Or Liters per KM.
Confusing question.

But some good answers and tests to know about.

The Start you did is the start of your trip logging. At least it makes sense and is consistent.
Start the truck, Start the trip, Start the logging, that is visually displayed anyway.

Great way to show off some great winter mileage figures!

 

[MakinDoForNow]

awe, shucks!

until I pasted it, I thought that it said mites per gallon, and was gearing up for a wisecrack about flea spray!

After filling up and driving off from the station you could refer to gas consumption as FLEE SPRAY!

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