Real life fuel consumption
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Real life fuel consumption
Keep reading people are getting 39-40 MPG
I have a 2024 NX 350h with around 8000 miles.
Constantly getting around 33-34 miles per gallon, 65% highway, and 35% city use. ( average highway speed is 75-80mph)
Using 87 gas ( trying to use Top Tier when available )
Am I missing something?
I have a 2024 NX 350h with around 8000 miles.
Constantly getting around 33-34 miles per gallon, 65% highway, and 35% city use. ( average highway speed is 75-80mph)
Using 87 gas ( trying to use Top Tier when available )
Am I missing something?
Last edited by gallico916; Sep 30, 2024 at 01:31 PM.
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Keep reading people are getting 39-40 MPG
I have a 2024 NX with around 8000 miles.
Constantly getting around 33-34 miles per gallon, 65% highway, and 35% city use. ( average highway speed is 75-80mph)
Using 87 gas ( trying to use Top Tier when available )
Am I missing something?
I have a 2024 NX with around 8000 miles.
Constantly getting around 33-34 miles per gallon, 65% highway, and 35% city use. ( average highway speed is 75-80mph)
Using 87 gas ( trying to use Top Tier when available )
Am I missing something?
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One factor is where you live. Here in San Diego you can't really drive anywhere without encountering large hills. This has typically affected the published MPG by minus 10% for any vehicle I have owned. I suspect a lot of folks claiming higher, near rated MPG, are in areas that are typically much flatter for most of their driving or they have hybrids and drive mostly in the local city and not much freeway.
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the 65% highway @ 80mph is what kills it.
in town during the week I can average just above 4.5L/100km (about 55mpg), driving in eco mode and just accelerating slowly whenever I can do it wthout pissing off drivers behind me.
weekends I'm mostly on highways, and that drops me down to about 6.5-7L/100km (about 34mpg) if I got about 110km/h-115km/h. Going to 120km/h (75mph) drops my mileage down to about 8l/100km for the same trip (about 30mpg).
So if you're averaging 65% highway, that makes sense with what you're seeing. Hybrids are best in stop/go/city traffic, on highways you're still gonna need the gas engine and while it's efficient, it's kinda running against the laws of physics between the weight and drag of the car.
You MIGHT be able to get better numbers doing hypermiler techniques like pulse and glide......I have tried doing it myself before, and I can see the trip mileage numbers drop noticeably when doing it. But it's annoying both to do, and to drivers behind you. Not really worth it unless I'm bored out of my mind and don't have any passengers (unless you want a lot of carsick people in the back)
so I've taken to driving much slower than I used to as the primary way to save gas on the highway, because I like seeing that economy number. Getting to places 5-10mins slower is worth the gas savings.
in town during the week I can average just above 4.5L/100km (about 55mpg), driving in eco mode and just accelerating slowly whenever I can do it wthout pissing off drivers behind me.
weekends I'm mostly on highways, and that drops me down to about 6.5-7L/100km (about 34mpg) if I got about 110km/h-115km/h. Going to 120km/h (75mph) drops my mileage down to about 8l/100km for the same trip (about 30mpg).
So if you're averaging 65% highway, that makes sense with what you're seeing. Hybrids are best in stop/go/city traffic, on highways you're still gonna need the gas engine and while it's efficient, it's kinda running against the laws of physics between the weight and drag of the car.
You MIGHT be able to get better numbers doing hypermiler techniques like pulse and glide......I have tried doing it myself before, and I can see the trip mileage numbers drop noticeably when doing it. But it's annoying both to do, and to drivers behind you. Not really worth it unless I'm bored out of my mind and don't have any passengers (unless you want a lot of carsick people in the back)
so I've taken to driving much slower than I used to as the primary way to save gas on the highway, because I like seeing that economy number. Getting to places 5-10mins slower is worth the gas savings.
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gallico, since you did not mention which model you have, go to Fuelly dot com the average hybrid hits 37 mpg and the turbo model is roughly around 23 mpg
If you have a 350h, learn how to pulse and glide.... and follow what others have posted in this thread.....
good luck
If you have a 350h, learn how to pulse and glide.... and follow what others have posted in this thread.....
good luck
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gallico, since you did not mention which model you have, go to Fuelly dot com the average hybrid hits 37 mpg and the turbo model is roughly around 23 mpg
If you have a 350h, learn how to pulse and glide.... and follow what others have posted in this thread.....
good luck
If you have a 350h, learn how to pulse and glide.... and follow what others have posted in this thread.....
good luck
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@gallico916 it depends on how fast you drive. you can accelerate slow and let off gas and anticipate stops and run around 55 mph and get 40 or more mpg. I typically drive a I-45 Interstate corridor that always goes 75-80 mph and at that speed only get 35-36 mog. Wind resistance at higher speeds is the biggest factor, could is driving skills to increase mpg. If you go a steady 65ish mph and do some slow acceleration and anticipate stopping you should easily be able to get 40 mpg in a 350h. Some of the Prius techniques work if you are in a low density traffic area with multi-lanes.
Good Luck.
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Good Luck.
YMMV,
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) performance/muscle car driver forever
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Yeah there are so many factors, also when was the last time you updated your total MPG in your trip information history screen? If you have not updated your MPG, your total would be the average of many many weeks, month etc. and it would be low. Update the mpg once a week for 38-40 MPG, or once a day and your total MPG could be in 50 haha 
Drive in ECO mode, slow accelerate from the stops, lift off the gas pedal to slow down, the sooner the better before you have to use the breaks, try to use the gas pedal the way that you almost do not have to use the breaks, and let your proactive driving do most of the work 
Maybe try to use premium 91 or 94 once, to see if that would make things better. 
Drive in ECO mode, slow accelerate from the stops, lift off the gas pedal to slow down, the sooner the better before you have to use the breaks, try to use the gas pedal the way that you almost do not have to use the breaks, and let your proactive driving do most of the work Maybe try to use premium 91 or 94 once, to see if that would make things better.
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