For the last few months I've been using my IV as a hybrid only as I haven't really been able to plug it in. Mog have varied wildly. There were some days I was only getting high 30s, though that wasn't very often. On one drive a couple of months ago I got 57mpg. And last week on a drive from up in the hills in Perthshire to Dunfermline I recorded 63mpg (I get is was on average downhill so maybe that's why).

 

Average seems to be about 47mpg. Though I think I'm noticing better mpg when the temperature is around 10⁰C or higher. Sometime though the exact same journey can give quite different mpg day to day 

 

Has anyone else been using their plug-in hybrid like this?

I have had mine since the new year.

i charge all the time and have been using it mainly On battery which to be honest with a single kwph standard rate it is almost the same price as petrol.

 

thursdy and Friday I did a trip from London to Leeds and return. Full tank of fuel and full battery to start.

 

charged in the car park overnight (£6.50) and at the end of the 420 miles I put £46 of petrol in.

 

car was showing 59mpg which i am really happy with as that is around the same as a diesel.

 

running as purely hybrid I would be happy with 45/50.

 

have you played around with the battery status as you can get the car to charge the battery 

 

i charge using a standard plug as it’s not worth getting a normal charger.

 

3 minutes ago, wantaskoda said:

I have had mine since the new year.

i charge all the time and have been using it mainly On battery which to be honest with a single kwph standard rate it is almost the same price as petrol.

 

thursdy and Friday I did a trip from London to Leeds and return. Full tank of fuel and full battery to start.

 

charged in the car park overnight (£6.50) and at the end of the 420 miles I put £46 of petrol in.

 

car was showing 59mpg which i am really happy with as that is around the same as a diesel.

 

running as purely hybrid I would be happy with 45/50.

 

have you played around with the battery status as you can get the car to charge the battery 

 

i charge using a standard plug as it’s not worth getting a normal charger.

 

Yeah I know you can set it to store charge via the engine but I don't tend to do that as I wouldn't think it would be as economical - it's going to use fuel to charge it up.

12 hours ago, mccririck said:

Yeah I know you can set it to store charge via the engine but I don't tend to do that as I wouldn't think it would be as economical - it's going to use fuel to charge it up.

Agreed - burning fuel to make electricity to power the car introduces more stages for losses so is surely less efficient then just leaving it to work as a non-plug-in hybrid.

I guess there's  case for charging the battery if you know you want to use EV mode later in a journey, but it will cost extra in terms of fuel.

My key was to have a more economical car than my 1.0 petrol juke (which it is)

be automatic (which it is)

and make my driving within London (20mph) zone easier - as driving a combustion engine, even with stop start - is a nightmare as cars are not built for that speed!!

 

oh, and I paid the same as a 1.5 petrol 

2 hours ago, wantaskoda said:

My key was to have a more economical car than my 1.0 petrol juke (which it is)

be automatic (which it is)

and make my driving within London (20mph) zone easier - as driving a combustion engine, even with stop start - is a nightmare as cars are not built for that speed!!

 

 

Yeah I think I'd do the same to be fair.
Stop-Start always feels like it's hard on the various components too, so if you can drive those parts of  your journey in EV mode instead it does make sense.