Warm weather Hybrid MPG is INSANE!

[MaverickMom]

Many days on this tank with A/C on. I almost forgot to stop for gas its been so long (3 and 1/2 weeks) since my last fill up. I was at costco for gas when this was taken. Only took 11.01 gallons to fill up.

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[Sykotyk]

Up north there's a big change between winter and summer. My suggestion in the winter is to just wait until the engine warms to turn on the heat. Otherwise it will run the engine all the time getting it hot even if it's not needed to drive.

 

[JBryant]

Keep that up all summer and you might have to stop every now and then and drain gas out of the tank LOL. Another living proof as to why the Maverick hybrid knocked it out of the park.

 

[Eagle11]

Up north there's a big change between winter and summer. My suggestion in the winter is to just wait until the engine warms to turn on the heat. Otherwise it will run the engine all the time getting it hot even if it's not needed to drive.

It has to do with the temp outside and the battery, in cold weather the truck has to heat the battery. There are dozen of threads about this very subject. In the "rust belt," you guys get in the single digits, that effects MPG.

 

[MaverickMom]

Up north there's a big change between winter and summer. My suggestion in the winter is to just wait until the engine warms to turn on the heat. Otherwise it will run the engine all the time getting it hot even if it's not needed to drive.

This winter I noticed having the daytime running light default to off was a huge difference. During the coldest months having the daytime running lights off I would get about 44 to 48 MPG per.

When I first picked up the truck those lights were all on the time and took me forever to figure out how to turn them off lol.

 

[Sykotyk]

It has to do with the temp outside and the battery, in cold weather the truck has to heat the battery. There are dozen of threads about this very subject. In the "rust belt," you guys get in the single digits, that effects MPG.

I'm aware of that. But there's many times I've been in the garage and before I even put it in gear, the engine would run when the heat would be on. But if the climate control is turned off, the engine won't run. And will use the electric. Yes, when it's really cold the engine will come on to produce POWER to get the batteries to proper temp. But will turn off pretty quickly. Well before the engine warms up enough to start blowing hot air. Literally from my garage to the stop sign at my corner and the engine would be back off. By then, I would only have one bar on the temp gauge. Needs to be at three bars to get good heat going. Two bars or less and the engine will run and run until it's warmed up to 3 bars.

That's what I'm talking about. The truck will run the engine nonstop to get up to hot enough to work hot water through the heater core and blow hot air. Does it too while driving if you're in electric a lot and your temp gauge dips down below 3 bars roughly, the engine will kick back on.

Once the battery is warm enough, it doesn't really cool down enough again to force the engine to run. The charging and discharging of the battery will keep it warm.

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