How To Operate the Outlander PHEV - with Konnie Huq

back in 2014 Mitsubishi created a truly remarkable and unique car a large SUV with plenty of space practicality and an advanced four-wheel drive system based on their years of off-road and rallying experience Mitsubishi undoubtably make great cars but what made this car really special was the method of propulsion the car was the Mitsubishi Outlander PHV or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and it was the world's first large four-wheel drive SUV with advanced plug-in hybrid technology using a combination of both electric power and petrol power meant that it could achieve reduced emissions and fuel efficiency that were just impossible for your traditional petrol or diesel engine truly a no compromise solution for drivers that need the practicality and convenience of an SUV but without the environmental impact and fuel and tax costs that are usually associated with them fast-forward to the here and now and the Mitsubishi Outlander Phe V is the most successful plug-in hybrid SUV ever and not just here in the UK but worldwide and with every passing year Mitsubishi are updating and refining that technology which means the one that I'm driving here today is better than ever the technology may be a monster the reason why the Outlander P HEV is so successful is that it just doesn't get in the way of your driving you can drive like any other car and let the clever technology do all the work for you or if you want you can take control and let the more advanced features ensure that you get the best possible performance [Music] now I've got a little confession to make I myself am the proud owner of an outlander P h-e-b so I thought it'd be rather cool if I'd give you a little overview of some of the best features and how to operate your Phe B if you're thinking of buying on all you've already got one it will be in plain simple English and you'll love yours as much as I love mine [Music] hybrid vehicles come in many different forms but lots of the musicom premised system they use their traditional combustion engines to charge the onboard batteries every day driving uses your traditional engine with the electric motor only kicking in if extra assistance is required with electric only speeds of about 15 miles per hour and a range of only a couple of miles this means that your capabilities are truly limited especially with bigger vehicles the Mitsubishi Outlander P HEV on the other hand was always designed first and foremost as an electric vehicle only using the engine when the main battery is depleted or if you need extra power to get up a longer hill or faster acceleration this means it's got a much larger battery which uses more power from mains electricity which is so much more efficient and more crucially it's a much cheaper solution than using petrol to charge a battery with a typical electric-only range of 28 miles the Outlander P HEV becomes a real money-saving proposition for the majority of us that commute less than 21 miles per day it costs just over one pound to charge the battery which is roughly two-thirds the cost of petrol for the same journey now here we have our two new charge ports the one on the right is a rapid charge port which can be used in so many places these days including most motorway services it will charge the battery to 80% of its maximum capacity in only 25 minutes the one on the Left uses a dedicated domestic socket and can charge in about five hours using the cable that you'll find in the boot but most clever P HEV owners get a wall mounted to charge sockets installed at home which cuts your charging time down to about three and a half hours and what's even better is that it starts automatically as soon as you plug in and cuts off as soon as the batteries full and you can get free out so you can charge and check remotely okay so we're in the car and the car is on and also ready to go the green ready light has flashed up because if you listen other than that though everything's pretty normal it's comfortable it looks like a normal car the only way I'd know that I'm in a bit special is by looking at the dashboard so first start we have got our battery level only left there and then on the right we've got the level of petrol then above that you've got your ranges so your evey range and then also your combined petrol and electric range and then you've also got a rev counter which is a bit different as well on the left you can see your evey usage and that will show you how much energy you're using from the battery or how much energy you're putting back in when you brake if that's called regenerative braking and we'll come on to that in a bit and then the other side of the rev counter is likely an usual rev counter and that shows you how your engines work like any other automatic you could simply drive the Outlander P HEV by selecting drive with this rather nifty selector lever release the electric handbrake and you're away easy but before you do that have a think about your journey okay so let's say mike and we're off on a long journey and we're gonna go on the motorway now it's much more efficient to use the engine for motorway driving so i'm gonna press the battery Save button and that means that I can save my battery usage for when I'm on slower roads or off the motorway well maybe your journey is just in town and is less than 28 miles which means you're better off pressing the evey priority button and your car will drive electric only and so you're saving all your petrol in fact some people manage to go for months without putting any petrol in the tank of course the car will always use the most efficient combination it can without your input but it can't quite read your mind about the type of journey you're going to take at least not yet evey priority is perfect for journeys like this if you're just doing the school run or driving to work it's really really cost-efficient you pay nothing on petrol plus as you can tell it's so quiet it makes your driver much much more relaxing and stressy ideal especially in towns and cities and when the petrol engine does kicking it's so seamless you'll hardly notice an attic earlier on I mentioned regenerative braking which is rather a mouthful but essentially means that whenever you slow down or descend a hill the motors turn into generators and direct the energy you'd have lost back into the main battery it's a good way to extend your IV range even further for free and it feels a bit like ordinary engine braking when you shift down gears in a manual car the car will default to an average level for you but if you wish you can take manual control by using these paddles either side of the steering wheel simply pulling the right hand paddle increases the level of braking and the left hand one reduces it you have up to six levels to choose from it can get like a bit like a game to see if you can shift up and down at the right times and extend your battery range for as much as possible there's even an eco button here which reduces the power output to the motors and climate control system it's a bit like reducing the engine size down a notch a lot of drivers get in the habit of pressing this when they start the car especially around town we're reduced power is barely noticeable it helps save your battery power now if you're really into the stats and all the info you're in luck because on your central screen in the car you can look up all sorts of different statistics for instance at the moment I've got mine on energy flow and that's showing me all the energy that's coming out of the battery and going into the car and then vice versa when I brake the energy that's going back into my battery and overall you get a leaf rating which will tell you how green your driving performance has been and it can get pretty addictive especially to make sure that you drugs green as possible of course with all this technology it's easy to forget that the Outlander P HEV is a proper SUV in the winter you get the comfort of a twin motor four-wheel drive system with a snow mode to get you out of slippery situations it also has a four-wheel drive lock when things get really tough plus did I forget to mention sport mode you can press a button here in the central column and then once you're in sport mode you've got that extra oomph and seeing as this is a proper SUV I should point out that it can tow as well which is going to be pretty important as we sift away from use of diesel vehicles so if you're towing really heavy loads you can put this into battery charge mode which means that your battery will constantly be topped up from your petrol engine I hope this little introduction has been useful and has given you a little bit of insight as to why this car is so special and before you worry too much about all this technology the Outlander P HEV was recently rated the most reliable large SUV in the UK so how's that for peace of mind drive your ambition Mitsubishi Motors you

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Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 20 2018