PiP road trip -- redux

Well, technically, in the back seat, they are both passenger side doors.

 

That's it!

 

I just filled the tank now that we are home, so here's the data. I wish I knew a way to lay it out in a table. Hope the columns don't get too messed up. I'll attach a screen shot of the relevant part of my spreadsheet just in case.

................Miles Gal. Raw mpg
Tank 1: 527 8.087 65.17 (Had a couple days of local driving before leaving with 132 EV miles)
Tank 2: 410 8.028 51.07 All Interstate
Tank 3: 509 8.407 60.54 (Included 115 local OH miles, 48 were EV)
Tank 4: 417 8.303 50.22 All Interstate
Tank 5: 433 7.021 61.67 (This tank started north of Knoxville, TN. Rest is tourist miles)
Tank 6: 444 8.369 53.05 All road trip -- Pigeon Forge, TN to Valdosta, GA -- about 1/3 Interstate
Tank 7: 221 4.102 53.88 I-75 to Gainesville, then back roads to US 19 & to New Port Richey




Most day trips in the Smokies were over 60 mpg, which is amazing in those hills. I wonder how thoe folks in their Suburbans and F-150s were doing. There were a bunch of them.

And I made a discovery relating to B mode on the PiP. Maybe you guys already know this. I was trying keep it in HV so that I could have more flexibility in using up the miles I would generate going down those giant hills. But, if I was in HV mode and tried to use B, it would use engine braking rather than increased regeneration. So I either needed to use the brake pedal all the time or put it in EV to pile up EV mile storage. Of course, even with B, additional braking was usually needed.

Also on the EV/HV subject, a couple times, when going down a big, long hill in HV, after the battery would get up to about 8 miles or so showing on the range estimate, it would put itself in EV mode. I don't think I was going over 42 mph, but that would explain it. That meant that I had to use EV mode to use up those miles later on, which was mildly annoying. It was hard to be too annoyed, though, at getting about 38 mpg going up the mountain and then not using the engine again the rest of the day except going up more big hills.

Here's a shot taken after coming down from Clingman's Dome the second time. We were almost to Cherokee at this point and still had about 6 miles or so of EV left, iirc. I think I count 62 "E"s there which is 1860 wH. Plus what had already scrolled off the screen!! I'd love to see what a Prime would do on those roads.