Hi guys, my DriveGreen function on the infotainment system doesn't seem to work, is there something I have to do to get it to start or should it be automatic? It doesn't seem to update as I drive. TIA

Edited 9 May, 20197 yr by marcg75

Usually it starts after you've started your journey. When I first got my car I had a look at it, but the best I ever scored was 92, but that was after a long motorway journey with a constant speed.

 

It's the same as the driving monitor we have in our fleet vans; it doesn't know the reason you're doing what you are. So when you're going up a slip onto the motorway, you need to give it a bit of right foot to get up to speed. The monitor doesn't know why you're accelerating that bit harder than normal and scores you down. You end up trying to drive to what the monitor wants and not what the road conditions need. 

 

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Just drive according to the road conditions and make your own judgements.

Thank you :) 

My car does not have it but judging from past posts from those that do, it is a seemingly illogical and a needless distraction.

Other threads have had screen shots from those with the facility displaying excellent real consumption getting poorer scores than those with worse consumption. 

 

It pretty much falls into the category of the 'economical' gear change display recommendations for manual drivers (which is on my car). I soon learnt to ignore it and get better results and a more enjoyable driving experience. That was true for my current 1.4tsi Octavia and rental 1.6L diesel manual Kia C'eed.

Edited 10 May, 20197 yr by Gerrycan

As tunetude states it should work immediately but as also mentioned not worth losing any sleep over it not working for example wife's Karoq gives a green score of 84 when 50mpg achieved and only 85 when you manage 57mpg which hardly encourages you to drive like Miss Daisy.

I have resolutely ignored mine for 3 1/2 years...

On 10/05/2019 at 03:11, Gerrycan said:

My car does not have it but judging from past posts from those that do, it is a seemingly illogical and a needless distraction.

Other threads have had screen shots from those with the facility displaying excellent real consumption getting poorer scores than those with worse consumption. 

 

It pretty much falls into the category of the 'economical' gear change display recommendations for manual drivers (which is on my car). I soon learnt to ignore it and get better results and a more enjoyable driving experience. That was true for my current 1.4tsi Octavia and rental 1.6L diesel manual Kia C'eed.

 

I have it, Its pretty crap and I never use it.  As above ive achieved mega MPG and crap scores, then good scores and crap MPG.

Managed to get a woeful score of 64 today whilst only getting 27mpg but it was a lot of fun so who cares that the computer didn't enjoy itself.

Too distracting for me. Good mpg can be got by driving slower and watching the instantaneous mpg readout. In long mobile queues today.  Not usually a good recipe for fuel economy but managed 54mpg ,indicated, on a 50 mile rural return.