Fuel Consumption shocking

[YooperCracker]

If I drive my Hybrid at 65mph I have gotten a best of 33mpg on mostly level road and no A/C but even at 70+ mph I will get about 30mpg with cruise control.

That seems low for the hybrid. I get low to mid 40s at 65 mph and very high 30s to low low 40s at 70mph. With AC on half the time

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[Waterick]

That’s not my experience. Of course it’s better in slow roll / stop and start situations. But still does well on highway.

I have a 2024 Hybrid XL and just got 44 MPG on a medium trip (around 250 miles) which was 90% highway. I reset the counter at the gas station next to my house when taking off. Typically driving around 70 and I don’t “floor it” when picking up speed.

Admittedly this was one of my better runs but I always get 39+. In fact, one of my counters is for the last 10K of driving and I’m at 40.3 MPG overall. I do at least 75% highway.

Are those hand calculated numbers? They sound like they're off from the uncorrected vehicle calculation which seems to usually be about 5 percent high. Still great mileage, however.

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

That seems low for the hybrid. I get low to mid 40s at 65 mph and very high 30s to low low 40s at 70mph. With AC on half the time

People think gas is the same everywhere.

It isn't. Different gas accounts for much of the discrepancies.

Hopefully the lower MPG recipe is the lower cost recipe.

 

[okgaz]

Are those hand calculated numbers? They sound like they're off from the uncorrected vehicle calculation which seems to usually be about 5 percent high. Still great mileage, however.

Nah. Just from the dash.

 

[shadow76]

I wish I would’ve paid attention back in the 70s when they tried to teach me the metric system.

Not too late to learn. I’m teaching a group of folks ranging from late 70s to 90s the metric system. Most can now mentally convert basic metric measurements to the Imperial system.

They wanted the class to keep their thinking sharp.

 

[HeyBales]

I have a ‘25 Hybrid and currently in New Brunswick on my Cross Canada Tour. I have averaged so far 6.4l per 100km for about 11,000 km. I am astounded!
On a side note, did anyone notice that Trip 2 Rolls over at 9,999 in my case km?

BP

Trip 1 will roll over too.

And for miles also.

Designers probably figured (for miles anyway), if someone hasn't reset a trip before 10K rollover, they aren't using it.

Vast majority of people I've helped on their car with something - they don't use the trip miles for fuel fillup or oil/filter change.
They use a variant dollar cost averaging method for fuel - $20 bucks when low.
And sticker on windshield for oil/filter.

 

[Master Blaster]

My previous vehicle had a 2.0 EcoBoost, and the problems started adding up after 200k kms. I traded it for a Hybrid because it always beats the EcoBoost mileage in all scenarios, and I liked the simpler drivetrain and its consequent much-reduced maintenance. With no belts, no a/c clutches, no high-pressure injection pumps, and no transmission clutches the addition of an electric motor to make up for the low-rpm torque deficit of the Atkinson-cycle engine was a net win.

On city-only traffic the mileage is highly variable. The first 5 miles or so use a lot of fuel to warm up the cat converter, after which it gets a lot better. So a trip to the corner store could use 9L/100km (26mpg), while a trip across town will use arount 5L/100km+/-1L/100km (39-59mpg)depending upon traffic lights, a/c use, summer or winter.

On normal country driving I usually get well under 4L/100km (65mpg). Attached is a pic showing a 17km (11miles) trip getting 3.6L/100km (65mpg).

On highways, I set my cruise-control at 105kph (65mph) and usually get about 5.5L/100km (42mpg) in summer and around 5.9L/100km (39mpg) in winter snow on bare and centre-bare highways. If I hit heavy traffic then the mileage improves a lot, showcasing the Hybrid advantages. Outside temperature also plays a pretty big role in highway driving.

Aside from the continuing 12V battery saga (I'm on my 3rd right now), its been a fantastic truck. I usually can be found hauling ~250lbs of handicap equipment, but sometimes up to max load of trees, dirt, mulch, etc. The mileage does not seem to very much depending on the weight carried, and varies more on the speed and driving conditions than anything else.

 

[bgctcowboy628]

Your profile says Ecoboost, which is a 2.0L engine, but you seem to be asking about the Hybrid 2.5L ???

My Tremor regularly gets 30 MILES per gallon on highway trips, so I would say your results of @31 MPG are typical for the ECOBOOST.

As far as hybrid highway fuel consumption, I have no personal experience with it. But, doesn't the Hybrid typically get it's best fuel economy in city driving and not long highway road trips?

I regularly drive up into town to the nutrition shop we go to and with my 2.5 hybrid I'm getting almost 45 miles per gallon. Your 31 miles about average to fail good in my experience.

 

[bgctcowboy628]

I regularly drive up into town to the nutrition shop we go to and with my 2.5 hybrid I'm getting almost 45 miles per gallon. Your 31 miles about average to fail good in my experience.

Fairly good

 

[jcofthewest]

Two ways of expressing the same concept. it’s all about understanding how ratios work.

40 miles per gallon can also be expressed equally as:
- 1/40th (0.025) gallon per 1 mile
- 1 gallon per 40 miles
- 10 gallons per 400 miles

Conversion is super simple. “Per” is just another way of saying “divided by” so “x miles per gallon” is just (x miles)/(1 gallons). You can just invert the ratio to swap from distance per volume to volume per distance, and then multiply both numbers equally to scale them up to something that makes more sense.

Interesting comment! The problem I have with metric is the extrapolation of such small quantities. I have no use for the quantity twenty five thousandth of a gallon of gas even though it can be expressed that way. When I hear a weight expressed as 200K, I think 200,000 paper clips because that is a rough equivalent, but I haven't seen 200 thousand paper clips at one time. So my mind doesn't grasp the concept. A Mile is 1760 yards, but I might be apprehensive about a 1 million 760 thousand yard drive even though it can be done in less than a day. I might ask for a day of to put 113 1/2 liters in my petrol tank.

 

[jcofthewest]

Not too late to learn. I’m teaching a group of folks ranging from late 70s to 90s the metric system. Most can now mentally convert basic metric measurements to the Imperial system.

They wanted the class to keep their thinking sharp.

Degrees in C times two plus 30. I can't figure out below freezing temps.

 

[Blue_Max]

Degrees in C times two plus 30. I can't figure out below freezing temps.

That is a very rough approximation.

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

Did you know?

0°F is the coldest temperature you can have liquid salt water (brine).

100°F is based on approximate human body temperature.

 

[HeyBales]

https://images.app.goo.gl/64PBLa8DudtTuBwC6

 

[Oldgaffer]

Did you know?

0°F is the coldest temperature you can have liquid salt water (brine).

100°F is based on approximate human body temperature.

interesting... good to know it is based on something, tho not sure how many ppl will relate to the temp that brine freezes

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