Morning @Glos-Guy
A little slow updating but, on Friday 14th March I travelled to my mums, as I had my grandaughters christening on the Sunday. To keep the story short, I filled up with fuel after running about Saturday and charged overnight, ready to attend the christening and make my way home on Sunday and subsequently top up again on the Monday morning once home.
The route home after attended the christening some 27 miles away, was to jump on the M6 at j16 and down th the M5 J8 turn off and then get off the M5 at J8 and join the M50 down to Ross, Monmouthshire and subsequently work my way home from there. A total journey of 226 miles.
I chose to use HDA (Normally like to be control of my own destiny!) and set a max speed of 83mph, adjusted during average speed zones and turned off in slower area’s.
Charging the car cost my mum £0.84 based on 12kW at £0.07kWh.
Refilling on the Monday cost £29.60 @ £1.315l (4.95 gallons)
Adjusted = 5.09 gallons
226 miles / 5.09 gallons = 44mpg
(The figure can be adjusted to my tariff @22p kWh)
Points to note:
1) the GOM showed 32mpg for the journey
2) the battery only ever charged to 25% max before going into electric mode and at no time charged back up to 100%