GAS USED WHILE IN EV?????

You didn't use any gas. It could be how the car was sitting that changed the gas gauge reading. Mine will jump up and down one bar at times depending on how I'm driving. My gas gauge will generally go down to one pip at 15 miles. What was your DTE miles?

 

One question mark per sentence, please.

Fuel level sensors aren't the fastest-responding or most accurate things in the world. As the fuel sloshes around in there, the float will move up and down. I'm guessing your car just needed time to realize that it had 1.49 bars of fuel, not the 1.51 bars it had been thinking you had.

 

i'm just amazed that you can get 20 minutes of creep and crawl traffic in ev. my gen II's never went that long without the ice coming on to replenish the battery.

 

I've noticed this too... I think its just getting an accurate reading from the tank.

 

That happened to me earlier today. I was coming down a big hill on all electric with 4 bars of fuel. When I got to the bottom, I coasted up a very soft hill, still in electric, and my fuel gauge went down to 3 bars. When that happened, my Ultragauge said that I had 3.22 gallons of gas in my tank.

 

Must not be going very far.
My salesman told me that EV was only good for about a mile and a half......but I haven't
had a chance to test it yet.

PS. Do I really have to "cut and paste" to do a quote here ??

 

Nope, when you log in, click on the "Reply" link to the right of anyone's post to quote it.

I've also had my fuel gauge return to 10 bars after being down at 9 bars, after the car sits overnight.

 

I just did and it doesn't make a quote.

Wonder what I'm doing wrong ??

 

What browser are you using? Sometimes Google Chrome can be finicky and take a little while to load the quote. But that usually only happens on slower computers. Try using Firefox.

 

Orenji
just curious how can you get 20 min EV in crawling traffic. I can only think it is downhill, gravity providing most of the motive power (just a little incline will do). My C on flat surface, crawling traffic, provides no more than 5 min without needing to fire the ICE to recharge battery

Sent ?

 

Never mind. It appears to be an incompatibility with IE ver. 11.....for Windows 7.

Since IE still captures something like 60% of the browser use, you would think that software developers would
take more care to keep it compatible.

 

Sooo - you have a self-replenishing gas tank.

You gotta let the rest of us in on the secret!

Seriously though - I've had my gas gauge bounce up and down and/or my fuel empty warning light flash on and off in almost all my cars. Gas gauges are more a guide than anything else (and sometimes they outright lie!)

YMMV

 

Forget that IE exists... that's what the rest of the world does.