Reply To: New Tiguan PHEV versus Facelifted Tucson PHEV

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Oscarmax
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    Our average over the past 10 months equivalent to 135.4 mpg that includes electric, Suzuki Across PHEV, hope that helps.

    I’m not sure that it does help tbh, but that might be down to me not understanding what you are saying 😂 The reason that I say that is that when people quote MPG figures of their PHEVs it’s only part of the picture, as you have to factor in charging costs as well for the running costs to be at all meaningful. When you say that the 135.4 mpg includes electric, do you mean that if you factor in the charging costs and if you equate that cost to added petrol then it still comes out at 135.4 mpg? If so, that’s amazing!

    I always factor in the electric cost, if you do not factor in the electric cost it is very misleading. We had a Ford Kuga 2 litre 150 poweshift diesel on the scheme it was as economical as our previous 2 litre diesel vehicles, when we changed to the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV our average mpg (factoring electric) dropped dramatically, however we were charging up off peak @ 5 pence kWh and Tesco PodPoints we free. When we changed to the Suzuki Across/RAV4 the market had changed energy prices had increased and we no longer had free charging at Tesco (44p kWh) of off peak 5p kWh, we are now on Octopus Agile which tracks the market prices. So yes the fuel consumption for the Suzuki Across is amazing on a warm day on local journeys 60/62 on a 14.1 kWh charge, on longer journeys 50/55 miles and in the winter 45/46, Toyota/Suzuki state 46 miles.

    On a run these PHEV can easily achieve 50 mpg, or in our case 37 mpg towing a 1500kg caravan.

    Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.