I have had my Skoda Kamiq SEL 1.0 DSG since late June, 2020, and during that time have made the journey from Scarborough to Hunstanton four times when lockdowns have allowed.  Three of those journeys were after I downloaded the Skoda app which saves a record of data for journeys and I thought it might be interesting to compare different driving modes, notably the Normal mode with the Eco mode, especially with the current high price of fuel.

 

The route is some 175 miles, although we do sometimes vary it, e.g. if there is a particular place where we want to eat , but the very great bulk of the route is always the same, e.g. the variation adds maybe 4 or 5 miles to the distance travelled.

 

Using the Normal mode over the six journeys (three there and three back), fuel consumption has varied between 52.3mpg and 56.4mpg and for all six journeys it has averaged 54.3mpg.  In terms of direction of travel, the average fuel consumption  for the outward journey has been 55mpg and for the return journey it has been 53.6mpg.  I attribute the poorer fuel consumption returning to long queues at the Humber Bridge which has happened on two of the three return journeys.

 

Our next trip down is coming up and so I have switched the driving profile to Eco to see what difference this makes.  My understanding is that as well as start/stop and the "disconnect" between engine and gearbox used in normal mode, acceleration will be gentler with gear changes up being made sooner.

 

I'll report back in the near future.

Be wary of making any assumptions based on just one journey. There are many factors which will affect fuel consumption on any journey. Amient temperature is one, you use less fuel when it is warmer, that is until you use climate. Your figures already vary by aout 7% between best and worst, and you would need a lot more than that to show that Eco makes much difference.

14 hours ago, Routemaster1461 said:

Be wary of making any assumptions based on just one journey. There are many factors which will affect fuel consumption on any journey. Amient temperature is one, you use less fuel when it is warmer, that is until you use climate. Your figures already vary by aout 7% between best and worst, and you would need a lot more than that to show that Eco makes much difference.

I have no intention of basing my conclusions on a single journey and, as you will have noticed, the base data I am going to use for comparison is based on three return journeys and would have been more had I had made more data.  I am also aware  that there are many factors which affect fuel consumption, and I have highlighted one of them  in my post - traffic congestion at the Humber Bridge, half an hour on one occasion and an hour on another - which certainly affected the fuel consumption adversely.   I would also make the point that the figures for this journey are very much in line with fuel consumption figures for any journey of, say 50 miles and over in my experience of 10,000 plus miles with the Kamiq.

Once you know how you get on doing your comparisons using E10 95 ron you can maybe compare using E5 Super Unleaded like Sainsbury Super Unleaded 97 ron or Tesco Momentum 99. 

 

 

Edited 9 April, 20224 yr by roottoot

9 hours ago, roottoot said:

Once you know how you get on doing your comparisons using E10 95 ron you can maybe compare using E5 Super Unleaded like Sainsbury Super Unleaded 97 ron or Tesco Momentum 99. 

 

 

I've been using E10 since last August when it first appeared at our local Sainsbury's and I have noticed no detrimental effect on fuel comsumption and would say, if anything, a marginal improvement, so I'll leave that research to someone else.

Screw that, sounds too much like hard work.  At best you might save pennies so hardly worth the effort.  Just drive and enjoy👍

4 minutes ago, carefree said:

Screw that, sounds too much like hard work.  At best you might save pennies so hardly worth the effort.  Just drive and enjoy👍

My feelings but expressed more firmly.  I do indeed enjoy driving my Kamiq, best car let alone the best Skoda I've ever had.

I didn’t think anything could beat my old Fabia vRS (the original and best mk 1), but my Kamiq has.  Great cat👍