2008 EV Mode

[efusco]

Originally Posted by Orf

No doubt you are correct, Evan, but I enjoy sneaking home.
What about if you have a hill to climb first thing next morning, would that make a difference? The ICE has to rev faster than the 1275 rpm just to get up the hill.
Will the car still go into a higher emissions lower efficiency mode?

Yea, it will, but there's not much you can do about that...just like if you need to pull into traffic with a cold engine. In Japan some of those hypermilers like to let the car just idle for 60 sec. auto-shut off the ICE, then they take off in Stage II to avoid that penalty. For some of us we just don't have the patience for that.
For me I have a long driveway and very slow speed road out of my little subdivision so I'm in Stage II before I hit the main road...leaving work I have to drive through the parking garage, another lot, & a short road before the main drag and am out of Stage I by the time I get there.

Using my EBH I can routinely get 45-50+mpg first 5 minute segments with that technique.