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Replying to: jbollt (Aug 23, 2006 11:03 am)  LOL ! The battery is always optimally charged, to allow head room for regenerative breaking charging, etc. Starting with it at 100% actually defeats the system technology, and will shorten your battery life. 
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Replying to: jbollt (Aug 23, 2006 11:03 am) Where are the "bars" that is always being mentioned? Is that on the NAV layout that shows a car for every 50 w of enegery bing genereated in each time period? I see no benefit of getting "no arrows" unless the arrows are fromn the ICE. FYI - 06 HH Limited AWD, got last Thursday, 8/17.06. 250 miles, and am showing a 28.7 ave mpg. It had 66 on it when I got it, and the ave mpg then was 16. Don't know what idiot drove the first 66.
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Replying to: desertfox1 (Aug 23, 2006 12:56 pm) Then still more "idiots" drive them through the dealers car wash, fuel them at a nearby gas station. Then even more idiots, buyers, like you, me, test drive them.  That is where those miles came from, and just who those "idiots" were....
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Replying to: desertfox1 (Aug 23, 2006 12:56 pm) The "no arrow" thing is just a recent discovery so we are having fun trying it. Not convince it is really worth doing all the time. There are other ways of making sure the battery maintains a strong charge when we come to a stop. The strong charge allows us to start moving again on eletric. |
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Replying to: jbollt (Aug 23, 2006 11:03 am) We are not sure if it is useful for the HH because there are other ways of getting a good strong charge when we come to a stop. The strong charge lets us move off on full electric when traffic allows. The rest of the time, we just maintain power in the zebra region and the drive computer takes care of the rest. Just for fun, to do this no-flow thing: 1. First we work the accelerator to achieve full-electric mode. Remember to get on a long flat stretch. 2. Slightly easing the accelerator just a hair. The NAV diagram will likely show the battery turning off and Regenrative Braking charging the cells. THis tells us we just found the two end-points. 3. Now we gently press the accelerator, not as far down as #1 but just a hair further than #2. Somewhere in there, the flows stop and the car just rolls. It takes a very light sensitive touch and not easy for me to achieve so I do not do it muh. It is fun to try and practice when we happen onto a stretch of flat road. As Terry said above, don't obssess over this like me, I am just doing it for fun  .
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Replying to: cdptrap (Aug 23, 2006 2:35 pm) 
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Replying to: terry92270 (Aug 23, 2006 3:17 pm) . I think the host may come down on us soon .
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Replying to: cdptrap (Aug 23, 2006 4:58 pm) Insofar as the "Hosts"....I am sure they keep in mind a sense of humor is better than flaming. You're a good sport, CDPTrap.
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Replying to: terry92270 (Aug 23, 2006 5:06 pm) (Just kidding... how could we work here without a sense of humor?) |
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Replying to: carz89 (Aug 14, 2005 9:08 pm) Many fuel tanks have odd shapes to them, making a linear fuel gage hard to come by. You are used to the uniform shapes seen in liquid storage tanks such as in a power plant.
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