Mitsubishi PHEV - Increase Your Highway Hybrid Gas Mileage?

I just realized something else that needs to be tested in the Phe V which I never thought of guys getting in hitting the highway with a full charge and clicking save we've driven 80 kilometers this morning so we're actually still using power as well as you can see so the generator isn't running right now so it will still go into hybrid mode and then into generator mode like right there so I guess the question is is the engine running as generator more efficient than running the wheels over long periods so would you be better to get in the car with a full battery on long trips where you know you're gonna run out of electricity anyway and simply run the vehicle on safe mode so to clarify today's video the numbers we'll be looking at the gas mileage will be the vehicle in hybrid mode so it will be using the gas engine using any extra energy that it creates in normal hybrid mode but we're also going to have a full tank of electricity which were we've pushed the Save button so as I've mentioned before the vehicle is smart it will dip into what you save if it needs it for passing climbing hills etc so this is a hybrid mode test with a full tank of electricity so we're going to be doing 240 kilometres today just having to do some business in the next town over and I'm gonna run this vehicle in safe mode the whole way there with a full charge when we left and see what our finished litres per hundred kilometers is and see if it's lower than the usual 7 to 7.3 that I get I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen let's find out okay guys we're just out on the highway doing 100 clicks and I've got the crews on but I noticed that my braking level is on b3 how did that happen any other time I've been in crews braking level to is what has been set so you tell me what's going on they're not sure okay lay that guys we are in cruise mode and we're on v4 so I figured out what happens is whatever you have the paddles set on if you then push the cruise button to lock it in at a speed it still shows what you were on paddle wise but I don't know that it's actually regenerating not that before level I guess so I just hit the brakes right there so I didn't know that was possible if you just go into cruise mode push the cruise button and lock the speed in it defaults to be two but if you're set on any other number and the cruise button is already highlighted and you just push the set button it will lock it in on the paddle that you have and it looked at the energy monitor button and we were regenerating B for level energy so learn something new it was also pointed out to me that in the beginning with this car I thought using the paddles was the only way to reach an energy and it was pointed out in the forums and rightfully so that you can set your paddles to whatever be level you like and if you step on the brake pedal it still cycles through those b5 levels before it engages the physical brakes it uses the engine first even when you're stepping on the brake pedal and if you watch your inner energy monitor button when you're doing that you can see it will go through all five levels before you come to a complete stop so I figured that out about a month ago but forgot to throw it in the last video so there you go so the nice thing about safe mode is if you have more in their charge than when you push the Save button you can ride along in the highway without the generator running it just kicked on there again but I had pushed to that 17 kilometers here and we had more in there so we just coasted half a kilometer and nothing was running okay you stopped for construction again you know the old adage in Canada there are four seasons spring winter fall and construction we're in construction I wasn't thinking this morning guys I went through the car wash and I know what's going on here we got the super duper car wash this morning with the wax and that has made the Outlander PTV super efficient we are my wife doesn't agree but this is a theory I also wanted to say that a lot of you guys seem to be very concerned with the battery on the P HEV and the SLO numbers you know when we charge it we're getting these numbers from the watchdog's showing that it's down point zero one amp hours every week or second week you can't really go by that guys all that's going on here is the software in the car is telling you you can go so far per trip and it's guessing I can get in the car in the morning and it'll tell me I have 47 kilometers of evie range I can drive two kilometers down the road and that can drop down to 30 six kilometers I'll look again and say wow I lost 10 kilometers it's just guessing all the time then I can continue to drive across town and coast quite a ways and it'll come back up to 42 kilometers so the only way you can tell how far you can go on your battery guys is to actually monitor push your reset button every time and monitor your distance we've done the test to show that the trip ometer works its exact it's 100% accurate so we know that works reset your trip ometer every day see how far you go in electric before the engine kicks on do that 10 times and average it out that's how far you're going now of course to do that test accurately you've got to drive the same route the same speed and have the same temperatures if you do that over the course of I would accept 10 trips then you're going to get an accurate number and say I'm still getting 40 kilometers per charge the other thing I want you guys to remember is all of the literature when we bought these cars all the advertising for Mitsubishi Outlander PE TV stated 35 kilometers per charge so we are getting close to 50 kilometers on a full charge sometimes you're getting better than they said you were going to get when you bought the vehicle so that's my bottom line is just drive it guys as long as you're still getting that 35 kilometres you're still within what they said you were gonna get and for this whole trip I have not seen the engine come on and turn orange where it's driving the front wheels with the electric power saved in the battery pack I have not seen it come on yet orange I've seen the generator run and the power seems to be coming strictly out of the batteries we've got a great big hill coming up here and I'm gonna film it just to see if it does come on or if it uses battery power only okay so here's the scenario guys we are in a 70 zone so we're going pretty slow that means that the car has actually gone into just using the battery power only because we're doing 70 even though we're still on safe mode no generator running means the generators going to kick on because here's what's coming a great big hill okay so I'm gonna go back to the screen to see if it turns orange okay so we're doing 90 and we're climbing a big big hill here it still has not turned Orange we're cresting the hill and at no point did the engine have to work hard enough to drive those front wheels alright we are halfway there guys one hundred and thirty eight point seven kilometers you can see we still have the charge twenty kilometers when I pushed it and let's check out the Eco information 6.2 liters per hundred kilometers forty five percent here driven on electric and twenty point two kilowatt hours per hundred kilometers so I couldn't do it guys I just drove six kilometers through town in electric mode I just couldn't stand running the engine when I didn't have to so we are down to four seventeen back down to ten kilometers saved and so on the way home we're gonna have an extra kid and an extra bag of gear so probably 200 some pounds we'll see if that makes any difference but we will have ten kilometers in reserve which should be more than enough if the car needs it for passing up hill climbing etc all that stuff so the test should still be valid so strangely enough I did just see the engine kick on and go to the orange mode for driving the wheels just for about five seconds we're in town doing sixty kilometers on a flat stretch and the engine kicked on not sure why just came through a little town and used four kilometers and electric figuring I would still have seven battery saved and we're on a nice long straight stretch here and you can see the motor is now driving the front wheels which if you have more than 11 12 kilometers in there it doesn't do that nice long straight stretch right here and then it directly goes back into electric mode even though we're still in safe so this car I mean it tries to make smart choices but sometimes I don't know so with seven kilometers left on the trip I'm cutting back through town and we are on electric so like any good evie driver I'm gonna use every kilometer in the car before we get back to the house when we get there I'll show you the numbers and it will be I'll give you all the numbers when we get there there are the numbers guys we are home 296 kilometers 38% Evy driving 19.7 kilowatt hours and 6.4 liters per hundred kilometers on the way back so if you average the two the trip there and the trip back it's six point three liters per 100 kilometers and that I want to mention is with a side stop at Costco and an extra 200 pounds Thank You wife so make of that what you will guys those are the numbers from one trip so not super scientific it was almost 300 kilometers I find that my normal hybrid driving numbers without electricity in the tank are somewhere between seven and seven point three liters per 100 kilometers it would make sense that the car would never have to dip into that extra engine higher rpm because it's not driving the tires my theory was that it would be more efficient because you've got that battery power there to use all of the time is it I don't know this is only one test so here's where you guys come in do the same thing guys drive with it in full battery mode when you're on the highway a couple times and see if your numbers are any better I don't know I need help I can't do all the testing myself thanks for watching guys

Channel: Gary Reed Unfrequented World

Views: 62,215

Keywords: Mitsubishi, Outlander PHEV, PHEV, Test, Electric, Hybrid, Fuel, Mileage, Save Mode, Highway, Unfrequented World

Id: vINRgiOxrV4

Length: 11min 46sec (706 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 01 2018