Final running costs update as I can’t be bothered to work them out any more (I do miss in car fuel computers on ICE cars that give you an accurate mpg reading)
269 mile round trip (short break) starting with a full charge worked out at 40.84 mpg total equivalent. Final 100 mile run on petrol only (depleted battery, so fuel computer accurate) 33.8 mpg. Total running costs over first 7,000 miles £917.14 which is 13 pence per mile. Based on current petrol costs that equates to 45.38 mpg. Not bad, but I’d hoped for better in return for the faff of charging.
What the Tucson misses compared to other PHEV’s is both mpg and kWh readings for a journey. To be honest, I don’t find the fuel computer accurate at all, even in my previous Tucson ICE it under read by the time you did the fill to fill calculations. However we live and learn and your no wose off which is the main thing. I will stop calculating the way I do in 6 days time when the car hits 12 months old. Given I have done a spread sheet (which I should have shared), I will carry on calculating, but rather than keep journeys seperate by filling up for each one, I will drop back to tank to tank refill calculations. I sit back sometmes and thin, I should have gone with at least double the EV range, but from memory only the Tiggy was availble and in mind sits below the Tucson, that remain a damn good family car if nothing else!
269 mile round trip (short break) starting with a full charge worked out at 40.84 mpg total equivalent. Final 100 mile run on petrol only (depleted battery, so fuel computer accurate) 33.8 mpg. Total running costs over first 7,000 miles £917.14 which is 13 pence per mile. Based on current petrol costs that equates to 45.38 mpg. Not bad, but I’d hoped for better in return for the faff of charging.Do the PHEVs that state mpg and kWh calculate the mpg on the petrol only mileage (making the figures accurate) or on the total mileage, including miles driven on electric (as per the Tucson – making the figures inaccurate)?
Funnily enough, on the few occasions that I have done a tank to tank refill following long runs with a depleted battery from start to finish, the mpg stated in the car has been accurate (unfortunately 😂)
I agree about the Tiguan. Even though it’s bland (as per all new generation VWs) I prefer the exterior look of it to the Tucson, but the interior (where we spend our time) falls short in comparison. I never found any of our 4 previous Tiguans quite as dull to drive as the Tucson though, but the driver aid systems work far better in the Hyundai, albeit that advantage is offset by all the ruddy bings and bongs and the fact that you can only cancel some of them.
On that note, I read something online that you can ask the dealer to disable them if you sign a disclaimer? Have you heard that? When booking the car in for its first service (before I read this) I asked if they could do anything and they said no, even when I said that it would stop me getting another Hyundai as I found them so irritating and distracting!