Hello Everyone, I pushed the button on a 23 plate iV over the weekend and hopefully picking it up in the next few days.

 

I'm coming from an old diesel Superb which really has been a good car ( still is) and I'm spoiled with fuel consumption of 55mpg+

 

I keep reading that the iV is either terrible on fuel or brilliant (nothing in between) and I wonder what people's experience is with them ?

 

Short journeys will be electric only I guess but we do lots of 250miles journeys up the M6 to Glasgow and I wonder what I can realistically expect to achieve ?

Really appreciate any thoughts/pointers.

 

Thanks

If fully charged on a long run, expect 65 - 70MPG , when driven sensibly. Once you're out of juice, its more like 50 ish MPG

 

If you can do the majority of your local runs on electric, it makes great sense. Then you use fuel as needed on big trips.

 

 

Thanks Simon, that's reassuring and exactly why we've bought it. Yes I'm thinking/assuming that long runs are on Eco and hybrid/auto (whatever that setting is).  I know the electric will run out well before the end of a 250 mile journey though but even 50 would be decent.  Short runs can be just on electric.....

 

Many thanks

 

Similar experience here, when fully charged up and on hybrid mode (on the 'Normal' setting), i get a about 65-75mpg, Depending on driving style/weather that charge lasts me about 80-100miles on the motorway. Once out of charge, I get about 50-53mpg.

 

Of course you can limit your battery usage to a certain percentage if you know you want to save it for a round trip or if you know theres town driving at a certain section.

Thanks - again, that's very encouraging. I'll have to look into that limit the usage once I have it - does that effectively "skim" a bit of the battery off and spread it over a longer range ?

 

Does the car feel quick enough on a motorway as well - I know there's 200hp or so in theory but I only had a tiny bit of motorway driving on my test so couldn't really tell - it certainly should be though?

 

I think if you limit the battery to 50%, the battery will drain at the same rate as normal until it reaches the 50% mark. Effectively you will have 40-60miles of high mpg driving and then the rest will be at a lower mpg. 

Take this with a pinch of salt as I've only done it a few times haha.

It definitely feels nippy on the motorway, plenty of power to overtake in my opinion, especially in sports mode if you need the extra responsiveness.

Top speed 136 mph so near double the UK Motorway speed limit. 

Just push down the accelerator it going to have enough speed / acceleration to get on it,s way.

Last year we did 11761km, with an average of 3.2 l/100 km (88 mpg) and 8.6 kWh/100 km (which my conversion utility tells me is 288 Miles per Gallon Gas Equivalent, whatever that is). Unfortunately I don’t know how much was using petrol and how much electricity, but most of our daily driving is on electricity. We did a long trip from Milan to the boot of Italy which was using petrol at 5.2 l/100 km (54 mpg).

If i am doing short journeys i still to full ev, but if I am going on a run where I know I will run out of charge I start on hybrid.

if i am doing a long run I often allow a few miles of charge left for the end, but also hate seeing the red line of no charge for 100 miles!!!

 

my app shows i tylucallt avergae 95mpg over a month and so I am happy with that

1 hour ago, DaveCheckley said:

Last year we did 11761km, with an average of 3.2 l/100 km (88 mpg) and 8.6 kWh/100 km (which my conversion utility tells me is 288 Miles per Gallon Gas Equivalent, whatever that is). Unfortunately I don’t know how much was using petrol and how much electricity, but most of our daily driving is on electricity. We did a long trip from Milan to the boot of Italy which was using petrol at 5.2 l/100 km (54 mpg).

Thanks Dave  - impressive stuff !

1 hour ago, wantaskoda said:

If i am doing short journeys i still to full ev, but if I am going on a run where I know I will run out of charge I start on hybrid.

if i am doing a long run I often allow a few miles of charge left for the end, but also hate seeing the red line of no charge for 100 miles!!!

 

my app shows i tylucallt avergae 95mpg over a month and so I am happy with that

Thanks - I'm not familiar yet with the various button and settings but is that the hybrid setting on eco ?

On motorway runs with a flat battery, mpg has never been below 50 for me.

A 200 mile round trip starting with full charge will be 60-65 mpg.

30 each way commute is 100 mpg plus.

The great thing though is getting 800 plus on a tank when you do short journeys all week.

Overnight charging on economy 7 is about 75p.

Thanks Andy, if I get those sort of figures I'll be chuffed.

 

If you set the battery to preserve energy thats pretty useful on longer runs.  I normally get close to 450 miles on a full tank (£45-50) with daily / bi-daily charging, about 80 miles a day.