What is your average fuel consumption?I've done over 30,000 miles and for the last 25,000 or so miles, I've averaged 72mpg.
I don't really like mine: 5,3 l (44,38 mpg). I've driven about 600 km (373 mil), 70% in the city.
It is also interesting that consumption dropped from about 5,9 l (39,87 mpg) to the current 5,3 l (44,38 mpg), mainly when driving outside the city, although it should be the other way around.
In the city I drive on "B"+"ECON". Outside the city on "D"+"ECON". I ride with a "light foot".
Am I doing something wrong?
But the biggest shock was when I first took the car from the dealer. I drove about 200 km (124 mil), again with a “light foot”, only a small part on the highway. And at the end of the trip it showed me an incredible 8,2 l (28,68 mpg)!
Stani - your picture shows a full tank (say 40 litres) and a range of 978 km. This suggests that the car thinks your consumption will be 4.1 l/ 100km (63 mpg). This does not square with the 8.2 shown for the last 240 km. Have you had some extreme weather conditions? What consumption can you calculate from your fuel purchases?Then I filled up the tank at the end of the trip.
I've done over 30,000 miles and for the last 25,000 or so miles, I've averaged 72mpg."B" both outside the city and on the highway?
I drive mostly in B mode, aiming to get as much of the regenerative charge into the battery, so that the ICE engine doesn't have to do all the work.
I never use the ECON button. If you drive it as you want to drive it, the ECON button simply makes you drive with a heavier foot.
coldstart: so what do you advise? Use ECON or not? Use "B" (in the city/everywhere) or not?
What is your average fuel consumption?
I don't really like mine: 5,3 l (44,38 mpg).
Yes, nearly all the time. It hasn't broken the car yet!I've done over 30,000 miles and for the last 25,000 or so miles, I've averaged 72mpg."B" both outside the city and on the highway?
I drive mostly in B mode, aiming to get as much of the regenerative charge into the battery, so that the ICE engine doesn't have to do all the work.
You can't put cruise control on "B".
I tried ACC a few times early on and had issues with it thinking vehicles in adjacent lanes were in front so slowing me down
I have a theory: Maybe when your car was new, it had been idling a lot at the dealership, burning petrol without moving anywhere. That could explain your high initial consumption 8.2 l/100km. The car has calculated this 8.2 l/100km averaged over the first 240 km that the car has ever driven. Now that you have driven more (600 km), the average has dropped to 5.3 l/100km.
I suggest to reset the trip meter, so the car would start calculating the average consumption from scratch, removing the possible effects of whatever happened at the dealership.
Forget Eco, it dulls the throttle so you need to press harder
I'm a NORMAL guy, but that is a matter of opinion. ECO to me just makes the car feel duller, and offers no mpg advantage,
imho it all boils down to personal taste - and I kind of like the "dulled" throttle response.
cabin heat is an absolute killer for mpg in the cold!Indeed it is. Especially on short city trips when Jazz can't stay in EV mode, because the cabin requires heat from the petrol engine. But on long motorway cruises the cabin heat shouldn't affect MPG much, because the petrol engine is running most of the time anyway producing plenty of waste heat.
I did go out last week to top up the HV battery as the car had stood for 3 weeks...
ECO only the changes the characteristics of the throttle (there is no direct connection to the engine!)ECO also widens the acceptable difference between target and actual cabin temperature before the system turns on the engine to provide cabin heating.