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First Landrover but not my first PHEV.
Wondered what others
were finding on long motorway cruises, when the battery has been depleted.
What I am seeing is that once the battery reaches 5%, the system will then be constantly charging the battery, just to maintain the 5%. This is seen on the energy flow map on the Pivi. The increased load on the engine whilst charging gives shocking MPG (10-30mpg), as you'd expect. I understand the need for a bit of a top up here and there, but this is literally, constant. For long trips (>200m) I just sit and watch the engine charge the battery and my fuel drop at an alarming rate.
Run on Save mode and this would operate the same. Constant charging just to maintain the set level.
As a test, with a full battery, I ran on engine alone, constant speed 69mph, heaters and everything that could be turned off - off, and watched the battery level. The battery dropped 2-3% a minute! The mpg of the engine alone when not charging the battery was what I would expect on the motorway, 40-50mpg.
Cruising on EV mode, the battery dropped by 3-5% a minute!
What could possibly be drawing as much power as the electric motor?
I assumed this had to be a fault with the system as previous PHEVs would not be required to constantly charge the battery once depleted.
Told by LR that this was how it worked! Took another P300e out, carried out the same tests, and it was the same!
Shockingly, the Defender, that I had whilst mine was in the garage, was more economical on the motorway than their hybrid with a depleted battery.
I am well aware that PHEVs are not the ideal car for long motorway cruises and the reported mpg is a fairy tail when driving anything other than the school run, but there should not be a need to be charging off the engine so much?!
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Wondered what others
were finding on long motorway cruises, when the battery has been depleted.
What I am seeing is that once the battery reaches 5%, the system will then be constantly charging the battery, just to maintain the 5%. This is seen on the energy flow map on the Pivi. The increased load on the engine whilst charging gives shocking MPG (10-30mpg), as you'd expect. I understand the need for a bit of a top up here and there, but this is literally, constant. For long trips (>200m) I just sit and watch the engine charge the battery and my fuel drop at an alarming rate.
Run on Save mode and this would operate the same. Constant charging just to maintain the set level.
As a test, with a full battery, I ran on engine alone, constant speed 69mph, heaters and everything that could be turned off - off, and watched the battery level. The battery dropped 2-3% a minute! The mpg of the engine alone when not charging the battery was what I would expect on the motorway, 40-50mpg.
Cruising on EV mode, the battery dropped by 3-5% a minute!
What could possibly be drawing as much power as the electric motor?
I assumed this had to be a fault with the system as previous PHEVs would not be required to constantly charge the battery once depleted.
Told by LR that this was how it worked! Took another P300e out, carried out the same tests, and it was the same!
Shockingly, the Defender, that I had whilst mine was in the garage, was more economical on the motorway than their hybrid with a depleted battery.
I am well aware that PHEVs are not the ideal car for long motorway cruises and the reported mpg is a fairy tail when driving anything other than the school run, but there should not be a need to be charging off the engine so much?!
