Please read the reply above
Perhaps I should clarify. A ‘self charging’ car as Toyota calls it, should be called a ‘slower discharging’ car, as petrol is consumed at a slower rate than a non hybrid.
Please read the reply above
Why bother? And why on a Honda E forum?
Why not? What does it matter that I disagree with what had been said and wrote something to counter it? This is the internet, a place where discussions go on way too long about subjects that really don’t matter. This is a prime example.
No, you did precisely 0 km on "pure EV mode" since non-plugin hybrids don't have any such mode, they just have a mode where you can drive using the energy that was supplied by the combustion engine a short while earlier.
Yes.
I did not know this. Nor do I know what you're on about here tbh.Reuben80 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:40 pm I did not switch to EV mode, I just let the car go into EV mode as all non plug in Hybrids do. Fuel was not flowing, otherwise I did not pay just 170eur petrol for 4700km.
The EV button, maybe you don't know why it is there, is not to put you in EV mode but to increase the motor power upper limit you have before the engine kicks in. I bet you did not know this.
I do care, and my priority is to stop burning stuff, even if that means I have to stop visiting my favourite petrol stations.
Nevertheless, I agree with rickwookie (and I did understand what you meant by your description of the EV button). All of the energy that goes into the battery pack comes from the petrol engine, so all of the miles traveled comes from burning petrol (and producing air pollution in the process). Even in EV mode, the energy that you're using was produced by the petrol engine.