EP140.4 - Driving the PHEV in Charge Mode and B0 for best fuel economy on the highway

[Music] and this is video number four of today and this may be a longer one because I really would like to show you something in while we are driving to Walloon in regards to the fuel efficiency okay let's um get started the car's not fully charged yet it still uses 1.2 kilowatts so battery it's not full but that's fine we have to go in the next five minutes anyway yeah not even not even the cooling pump is running for the inverter in charge or in rear motor I'm I guess the battery is still around 35 36 degrees what but while charging there's no cooling nothing ok let's turn it on this is the vacuum pump for the brake booster and the cooling has kicked in for the air condition which is cooling the battery pack and the cooling is running now with a pump for the rear motor inverter and charter this is this is the air condition this is fairly loud actually the under vacuum pump but this one you can barely hear and the rest is the air condition now okay let's go there we go now it gets really loud alright so recording battery temperature 30 to 37 so it has increased one degree again to 37 now but as I said I'm not too worried about it so we are at ninety seven point five percent state of charge [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so going back to be zero so at the moment we're using 20 kilowatts of power to the motors up this hill here and the battery gauge shows us full but the ghetto meter only 25 kilometers in the car and the ghetto meter and the dog shows us 28 so 25 in the car 28 on the dog and I think this is due to the fact that I have the air conditioned on let's turn this off again for normal air conditioned and we now have yeah 32 now on the on the gas O'Meara and 28 in the dog so when I turn on the aircon again that's why it is lower and the dog is usually shows more kilometres than the dog the dog is more conservative in protecting our EB range I'm always going back to be zero as soon as possible so when I take my foot off the accelerator it the car actually coasts and doesn't use any more energy god we've got 34 degrees outside now it's quarter to 3:00 in the afternoon I know this route we are driving now pretty well to this customer so I know where the hills are the mountains and the the downhill sections so now for example down this little hill here just take your foot off calicos no energy consumption gives you another two or three hundred meters of distance without using any energy and this all adds up at the end of the trip and then you are saving lots of energy and if you care about energy consumption that's probably how you should drive the car that's the most efficient way to do so put it in p0b zero and let it coast now again down this hill here coasting probably until the traffic lights there I guess they are turning red before you arrive there let's see there we go now b5 breaking of course and a little bit of friction break bloody traffic like that's the only traffic light in this area and turns red of course so I was pushing the gas a little bit this guy behind me was trying to keep up now he's turning now coward and we have used already three blue bars of the battery so now we're entering the highway I usually do this in full electric and now it's a huge energy consumption factor here push the car that far but we will have a done downhill section quite in a couple of hundred meters here so there's no benefit of putting on the engine it would not be firing up soon enough to propel the car actually now see forgotten to put in be zero because I'm a little bit too fast by the coast now they could see the battery dropping down to 76 percent now with an acceleration to the highway and even on the highway here coasting down this little hill probably another three 400 meters I can coast we're still doing a hundred kilometres an hour I keep driving electric now for the moment just there after the next bent it goes downhill again further down in the valley and we can coached a bit or even use region sometimes a bit to keep the 100 kilometres per hour and then we have to fire the engine because we are going up these mountains to mountains in a row with downhill sections afterwards we have to pass and because I'm driving this way this route he is so often I know how to handle the car with the most efficient driving style is for it so this is still 100 kilometres per hour area here on the highway can see beautiful summer weather just a few clouds and temperature 33 outside at 10:00 2:00 or 3:00 our battery temperature doing 29 and 38 see bent battery module number two is on 38 degrees which must be one of the front ones I have seen 40 degrees in one of the modules but that was when we had 44 degrees outside so I know we are going down healing again cars in p0 of course so we can just coast and you can see the battery voltage actually rising now the battery is relaxing it is recovering and the battery voltage is rising so a little bit of energy usage here to keep this 100 kilometres per hour and now we are going downhill again him beautiful almost three point nine volts and the lowest self it's amazing okay so now we need to a bit of gas and once we reach the middle of this valley here I turn on the engine in safe mode so it can warm up and propel the car uphill which I will do right now here after the barrier okay turn on safe mode charge mode sorry and now the engine is firing up as you can see from the kilowatt to the motors it's still running on pure electric at the moment and the engine is just warming up a little bit before it actually kicks in and drives the car eventually as you can see in front of us is now the mountain we have to climb and the engine should warm up in a second here it is and it takes over just as we approach this hill here they're freaking priya is hammering me speeding so I'm now using the petrol engine to go up this hill and once we on top of the hill at turn of the engine again and we are coasting down the other side and returning energy I'm not charging the battery now all the energy of the petrol engine goes into preparing the car you can see the power meters fairly up high you take some energy to get this car up this hill here trying to keep the car as close as possible as at 100 kilometres per hour here okay now I'll be on top of it now and turn off charge mode again let car host down this hill look at this beautiful view still doing one honey kilometres per hour and so there was 1.9 liter per hundred kilometers in average since we started this trip this afternoon here they was just going up this one hill I'm going to be one and shortly entropy - because there's an 80 kilometer restriction coming soon check this camera if it's gonna be cause actually it does the best way is fairly down ok go maybe - now returning 8.39 kilowatt 10 kilowatts now knocking quickly in b3 and then back into p0 coasting until we get to the next mountain and ahead of us sixty-two percent instead of charge just heading this guy in here okay so pressing charge mode again back to 100 km/h and now we are seeing the hybrid mode so petrol engine and electric motors are pushing the car forward but I'm doing already 110 you can see here the your consumption at the moment is fourteen point four liters per hundred kilometers on fuel of this hill [Music] and turning off charge mode again on top of the hill that the car closed p0 already gonna be 1 because this downhill is fairly steep here and we can recharge with five kilowatt now four to six here four five six kilowatts and this mp1 recharge okay go back to be zero sweating out here coasting again we are at 58% state-of-charge coasting so what is our energy consumption in fuel 2.5 liters now okay so click up this hill here again charge mode turned on here comes and the engine taking over flawlessly this one clutch system is fantastic there's no hesitation there's no stuttering nothing you can can barely feel the when the engine takes over your motors or the other way around it's amazing technology very good now we are even recharging with 1.4 kilowatts Oh seven kilowatts now yes I was wrong I don't bother turning off the engine for this little dip here just let the car coast as you can see every coast we use 14 kilowatts of energy into the battery now as a charge from the generator and the car is not being propelled by the engine at the moment so around 1415 kilowatts is what I have observed when you have the engine on and let the car coast that's what goes into the battery which is a little bit over 1c of charge but as soon as you kick the accelerator the charge speed goes down of course because the power needs to go into the transmission to actually propel the car okay so I'm turning off charge Modi again because this is a fairly steep downhill and I put the curve B to very soon just work Mary is dying and I Drive electric up this little hill here because I know there's a long downhill section coming after this year which is almost enough to coast so we can keep the 100 km/h with very little energy consumption so there we go and keeping the speed of 100 actually going for b1 for a moment slowing down the car be zero again coasting nope energy consumption at all beautiful and let's have a look at the battery temperature 2738 still I'm still having electric because we have to turn in a couple of hundred meters just need to wait until this four-wheel drive past me was very pushy truck behind me yep if I can have the left lane now and I put the current b5 already now so I can slow down at this stage here [Music] okay full of b5 regen braking and I have to wait still driving full electric this is now another probably four or five kilometers until the destination and I don't bother to turn on the engine anymore there heaps of cars coming from the left on this intersection here and don't want to risk anything now there are too many cars coming the gaps are not very far in between don't want to cause any problems here so but I can turn now that's my turn here we go crossing the highway it's always dangerous always okay so so state-of-charge 53% yes I said it's only a couple of kilometres now driving in it 60 80 kilometer mix going back and be zero Coast down this little dip see em as much as possible and the fuel consumptions are far 2.8 liters but I still have about one AK one quarter of the battery you'd really go down anyway now very bumpy roads here jeez there's no car behind me so I can slow down take it easy oh really this these roads here it's like a rollercoaster penny just beat up a little bit there's a car behind me now Kyle's gone Thanks you can slow down guess what we just say I've got another ten kilometres left and the dog shows us eight kilometers left so coasting into the 60s own there we go and we are almost there would be nice to recharge so to just plug it in over there for this hour or whatever it takes we need far more charging stations really and really usual usually power points are enough 10m or 1650 and 60 and power points are enough to recharge your car while you're doing business with someone or while you're having an appointment or something you know you're just plug in your car and you chop it up a little bit for a few kilometers that would be just handy okay I was taking the far right most parking spot okay here we are okay stop the recording stop the dog and let's go it's pretty good alright guys so we are back back in business I couldn't recharge this other camera here so apologies for that but I'm not going to film my way back anyway so because it will be the same driving style again so you drive uphill on charge mode and then turn off charge mode again on top of the hill and Coast on the other side and this is what I said the most efficient way to drive this car when you are driving longer distances on the flat or something you'd press the charge button as well charge up the battery to about 60 70 percent and then turn off charge mode and use this battery down until the engine kicks in automatically and then press the charge button again and charge the battery up again to 60 70 percent if you do this it uses around 1 liter less on fuel as if you just push the Save button and keep the battery level at one stage it's a little bit more work but I mean it's one liter per hundred kilometers that's a lot of fuel over time so I'll just try form now and then we have a look at the actual trip car from today and from this trip and go from there ok see you at home just have a look at together at the door and see how many kilowatt hours our 1.2 NPL is lost well I was parking here for one and a half hours and 1.2 MP I was just gone well it's nothing I can do ok is it also you at home it's close to a 5 o'clock and we still got 36 degrees outside welcome to sunny hot Australia it's actually only a thirty degrees outside that was just because the car was parked in the Sun so five o'clock thirty degrees welcome to a sunny hot Australia huh I don't see anything anymore now son so be on the highway now battery is empty engine his jacket just kicked in and I put the car in charge mode now and I will charge the battery up until we are on top of the next mountain and then Coast down the mountain and so on okay peeps we made it home 26.6% I managed which is 7.4 of 7.3 empowers only that's insanely low insanely low really yes yeah this is when I come from the highway down there this is about three and a half kilometres I need to try from the highway to home and I left the highway at 30.4% set of charge and I still managed to get here with 26% left the engine didn't kick in anymore so it's an 80-year 68 kilometers own well if I go the other way around and come through the little hills here on the other side the engine definitely kicks in and it use a lot more energy and the BMS bmu recognizes that and kicks the engine in so always come from the other side from the highway where it's flat if you want to visit me that is from today not today today because today is for videos but this is today when you actually watch this so this is video number four okay so 70 kilometres it was fair bit up and down yes sportive which 22.7% flight and only 70 percent region and that's exactly what you should have the collide fund the collide figure should be far higher than the region figure so it's good ok that's what we charged into the last charge but we have used four liters per hundred kilometers and 11.4 kilowatt hours pounder kilometres ok this dust sound too good actually for a 70 kilometer trip well that's what it is that's all I could do I'm sorry 2.8 liters burnt but only 1.8 kilowatt hours used while recharging so guys ok that was my last trip for today actually 26 and 37 degrees Celsius in the battery 7 37 degrees Celsius in the battery maximum what you'll number 2 as always so I won't bother recharging the car tonight anyway oh no I have to there's another trip to the tip tomorrow but without trail off it's just so I'll do this tomorrow I'll plug in the car and it gets a recharge at 1 a.m. in the morning when it's nice and cool outside and the battery will have cooled down until then so don't leave any nasty comments Andy you're killing the battery because it's cooking it's too hot it's not too hot 37 degrees is not too hot and the air condition is still nice dust the air condition is still kicking in cooling the battery so everything is fine on what we can do actually on this last trip here we can actually have a look at the overall trip car of today so this is the overall trip cut of the last four days don't don't be fooled this is not just from this video this is from the last four videos which is one day for me 103 kilometres yeah see it 13% collide in 18% region only it should be the other way around I'm not I'm not colliding enough I'm not colliding enough there's more potential so we charged with thirteen point six kilowatt hours all in total during the whole day there was with the initial charge this morning to know this yet tonight I'm not tonight but tuned this morning a.m. and I've reached out four times so yeah that's the same figure 2.8 liters of fuel burned over the whole day sixteen point four kilowatt hours there's a little bit higher because we have driven on pure electric most of the time this morning or only pure electric actually then recharged on 15 amp when I came home and cooked the battery I didn't cook the battery and now we are ending up with yep these figures here that's pretty good actually that's for a hundred for a hundred and three kilometer trip heaps of elevation in their sportive portrait driving style sixteen point four kilowatt hours and two point seven liters - Aniki meters not bad not bad for a 73% state of health battery huh don't forget that my battery is toasted I should tell you actually something about now I do this in a future video okay guys so far this whole session of videos as always as always guys I really appreciate all your support I appreciate that you're watching my videos I appreciate that you're leaving comments that you said oh the engine just kicked in holy I'm that far down right must be 25 or so I appreciate really your your emails your comments your facebook messages everything you're getting contact with me it's thank you so much guys really and we are close to fourteen hundred subscribers now which is totally mind-blowing I mean fourteen hundred people on this planet have subscribed to my channel it's just it's just can you believe that I don't know it's just insane so guys again thank you so much for that we will see us in the next video of course if it's a longer one I try to split it up a little bit as these four ones and you stay charged definitely stay charged there's Bonnie and we will see us again okay guys thank you so much again [Music]

Channel: unplugged EV

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Keywords: Mitsubishi, Outlander, PHEV, EV, Electric Vehicle, charger, evse, battery, degradation, soh, state of health, soc, state fo charge, problems, electric, software, app, PHEV Watchdog, highway, fuel efficiency, fuel economy, fuel, gasoline, power, mountains, Walloon, Warrego Highway, Minden, Marburg, charge mode, B0, regenerative braking

Id: HOiO7QZP6fQ

Length: 35min 35sec (2135 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 13 2018