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On 2026-10-22 17:48, Andy Burns wrote:

"J. P. Gilliver" wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

mine generally gets about 44 miles from the 13.6 kWh battery

Ah, I wasn't aware that even some plug-in ones had only limited range.

It's a PHEV not an EV, it's got over 400 miles worth of petrol sloshing about in it too :-)

and although 100 miles of battery range with 300 miles of petrol range
might occasionally be handy, I don't mind as it is ...

If I'm on a long journey I'll tend to do the first stint to reach the motorway on battery, then switch to petrol for the long stretch, and
then back to battery for the local roads at the other end.  It does
pretty well on petrol, easy to get 60-65 mpg which no other car I've
owned ever came close to.

I can't actually force it to use petrol or electric, just give it strong hints, the car actually decides.

I though some cars could be forced into electric mode when entering
certain city areas that are limited to EVs.
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"Carlos E.R." wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

I can't actually force it to use petrol or electric, just give it
strong hints, the car actually decides.

I though some cars could be forced into electric mode when entering
certain city areas that are limited to EVs.

My car is never classed as an EV, always as a PHEV, there are some bus
lanes which EVs are allowed to use, but I can't use them regardless of
mode. I don't think we have any city area that requires EVs (though
Oxford has a few streets where there is a fee during the day for
non-EVs). Some cities are very expensive per day for non-euro4 petrol
or non-euro6 diesel cars.

Mine has four modes (EV, HV, auto, charge)

in "EV" it will use pure battery, unless you floor it, when it'll use battery+engine, and tends to leave the engine running for a while
afterwards.

When battery runs below 30% it won't stay in EV mode, so the 44 mile
range I talked about actually comes from 70% of the 13.6kWh, it'll still
creep slowly on battery in stop/start traffic even when it has zero
miles left.

in "HV" it tends to run the engine to drive the wheels, if accelerating rapidly it'll use some battery too.

In "auto" it's supposed to decide between EV and HV, but I find it
prefers EV so chews battery early when I'd often prefer to save some
battery for a later section of the journey where it'll be more beneficial.

in "charge" it's like HV with higher engine revs, which gets sent to one
of the motors in reverse into the battery, I don't think it's cost
effective overall.

In all modes it uses braking force to top-up the battery.



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