Explain 10MPG drop on identical drive

[Eagle11]

When you park, you can park with a HV battery as high as 70% charged, or as low as 30% charged. You don't know what it is unless you have an aftermarket OBDII reader.

The battery is always somewhere in the middle but if the engine was running at the moment (or just before) you turned the truck off, the battery will be on the higher side. If you did a lot of EV driving just before shutting down, you will park with a battery charge on the lower side.

That range of charge can be good for 2 EV miles. That's 25% of your 8 mile trip. And the variance in MPG was less than 25%. So nothing appears to be wrong with your trip or truck.

Park with a highly charged battery and your very next trip will have higher MPG. Park with a low charge in the battery, and your very next trip will have lower MPG. Averages out in the end, but not on short trips.

There is a video of a guy who ran out of gas in his hybrid and drive 1 mile until the truck stopped. So I doubt 2 miles is reasonable.

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[GPSMan]

There is a video of a guy who ran out of gas in his hybrid and drive 1 mile until the truck stopped. So I doubt 2 miles is reasonable.

Did you read my whole post?

The battery can be anywhere from 30% to 70%. It allows 28% and 72% in "exceptional" cases.

So it totally depends on what percent you are at.

70% and you've got up to 3 miles at low speed with coasting. Rare for that to be the case.

If you are at 30% when you run out of gas you're not going anywhere.

1 mile you can probably bank on in most cases. I explained the whole range of possibilities.

0-25 mph coast to a stop, as in running out of gas: 3.3 miles from a 70% battery. Will you be so lucky to run out of gas at 70%? No. 50% probable. 1.6 mile? Probable.

 

[Eagle11]

Did you read my whole post?

The battery can be anywhere from 30% to 70%. It allows 28% and 72% in "exceptional" cases.

So it totally depends on what percent you are at.

70% and you've got up to 3 miles at low speed with coasting. Rare for that to be the case.

If you are at 30% when you run out of gas you're not going anywhere.

1 mile you can probably bank on in most cases. I explained the whole range of possibilities.

0-25 mph coast to a stop, as in running out of gas: 3.3 miles from a 70% battery. Will you be so lucky to run out of gas at 70%? No. 50% probable. 1.6 mile? Probable.

I did read your entire post, I bet the ICE was running in that 3.3 miles as a generator. THe battery in the Maverick is only 1.1 kw, not very big.

In the AM when I leave for work, I'll leave my house, and by the time I get out of neighborhood, the ICE is running as a generator, and my dash shows all elect mode.

 

[ehauser]

I did read your entire post, I bet the ICE was running in that 3.3 miles as a generator. THe battery in the Maverick is only 1.1 kw, not very big.

In the AM when I leave for work, I'll leave my house, and by the time I get out of neighborhood, the ICE is running as a generator, and my dash shows all elect mode.

If the ICE is running it shouldn’t show electric. False advertising lol. But who knows. It doesn’t really matter still great mileage.

 

[GPSMan]

I did read your entire post, I bet the ICE was running in that 3.3 miles as a generator. THe battery in the Maverick is only 1.1 kw, not very big.

In the AM when I leave for work, I'll leave my house, and by the time I get out of neighborhood, the ICE is running as a generator, and my dash shows all elect mode.

I am 100% sure my ICE was not spinning during my 3.3 miles; at 25 mph, on level roads, some coasting which I'm sure most people would do, if out of gas and wanting to walk less!

I'm also sure your truck does not count it as all electric miles, while your gasoline engine is running as a generator.

But yes, you can have all electric torque to the wheels WHILE the gas engine is running as a generator.

P.S. / Footnote: after having driven a 2005 Hybrid Escape for 14 years, and a Chevy Bolt EV for 6 years, the Maverick is the most efficient in watt/hr per mile. I was skeptical of the EV ranges posted here too until I got one and tried it.

 

[Morgan33]

You simply had less electric miles. Do you drive with the coach on. Did you forget to hit eco on the second trip. Some Days I play the pedal. But over yr in I'm over it. I still get great mileage.

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