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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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Replying to: typesix (Aug 24, 2006 11:42 am) A reply, even if almost a year later, is better than none!
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I think that the concept of "No Flow" arrows is more worthwhile if you live in flat areas. I live in Colorado and never worry about recharging my battery - no matter where I'm going, I'll always have several periods of at least a gentle downslope and, in some cases quite steep. The battery recharges rather than using my brakes too much so I just let that take care of itself. I do try to stay in "EV" mode as much as possible, again because I know I'll get the regen, but those inevitable uphill slopes usually put paid to that too. Purchased last August, already at 30K miles, lifetime MPG is 27.8 - I get 29.5-30 easily in the warmer months, winter kills that. (manually calculated - I have the base model without any average mpg display) |
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I went out today to see what's my HiHy fuel economy capability. As I drove, a couple of vehicles passed me and I just overtook them. It messed out my MPG to 20. I reset it and drove back home. As I reached home the reading was 62.2 MPG. More than one mile of was on electric mode.
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Replying to: peralta (Aug 25, 2006 3:37 pm) If the engine is already running, I had to release the gas until the engine stops then reapply gas in the electric zone. Sometimes it requires many attempts since the computer adapts to your driving habbits. If I drove agressively, the engine tends to stay running longer and even when I am fully stopped. I noticed that if I used full electric at the last part of my trip, the average MPG significantly climbed up. The electric mode also has lots of torque but is not fast. I can climb at a very steep incline at my driveway in full electric. Just resist he urge to press farther on the gas. The elcttric mode will get you there slowly but surely. |
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I've been wondering for awhile now what would happen if I ever ran out of gas. I know when the ICE kicks off I can get a few km on electric before the engine must come on to recharge the batteries, but if I ran out of gas a short distance from a gas station, could I cruise on in to the gas station on electric before the battery gets too low? Could this damage the vehicle in any way (assuming I didn't run the battery too low), or would it simply not run at all? Just curious if that safety margin even exists?
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