I did a long drive over the weekend, about 300km x 2 (total 600km) on a freeway and have cruise control set to 115km/h all the way. When I started my journey, the battery was sitting at 0km left, when I got to the freeway, I selected hybrid, charge, option.
As I continue driving, it reached to 49km battery range (roughly around 75% of battery capacity), and then it just stopped there. It looks like when using engine to charge the battery, you cannot charge it more than 75%.
anyone has experienced the same?
as part of my experiment, on the way back I just let it run on hybrid auto with battery range sitting at 0km all the way. fuel consumption is only 0.3l/100km different.
8.9L/100km with engine charge
8.6L/100km with hybrid auto (no engine charge)
I have a big roof pod/box on the car during this journey, so consumption is considerably a lot higher than normal. As I remember I was able to do 6-7L/100km without the roof pod.
As I continue driving, it reached to 49km battery range (roughly around 75% of battery capacity), and then it just stopped there. It looks like when using engine to charge the battery, you cannot charge it more than 75%.
anyone has experienced the same?
as part of my experiment, on the way back I just let it run on hybrid auto with battery range sitting at 0km all the way. fuel consumption is only 0.3l/100km different.
8.9L/100km with engine charge
8.6L/100km with hybrid auto (no engine charge)
I have a big roof pod/box on the car during this journey, so consumption is considerably a lot higher than normal. As I remember I was able to do 6-7L/100km without the roof pod.