This was a close one.... Almost ran out of gas and electrons

Waaay too close for comfort.

I have been pushing my last gram of gasoline as far as I could. For the past few days I have had 14,12, and 9 miles left of gas.

Today, I left my apartment, drove to one of my rental properties, recharged for about 30 mins, went to walmart, the bank then headed home, all in EV. I had 9 EV miles left and 9 miles of gas. I thought getting home would be no problem (I even passed 4 gas stations)

Ithaca NY is all hills. Lots of them. Unfortunately I see one of the largest ones on a daily basis. I see it anytime I go downtown and visit my apartments. So I started heading home after my errands and, like many other trips, I was planning on using most of the EV range going up the hill. I usually get to about the top and the car struggles to maintain speed and the computer turns on the ICE even though I have EV range left. Unfortunately on this trip I accidentally engaged the ICE near the bottom of the hill. The ICE hasnt been on in 2 days so it then needed to warm up. Immediately my gas range dropped to 4 then to 3, to 2.

I still had 1.1 miles of EV left and I was almost to the peak of the hill. This is about 1.3 miles from my apartment. At this point there is one last exit before I get to my house. However the gas station is about the same distance as my house is. I decide to chance it and head straight for home....

As soon as I pass the exit my car drops to 0 ICE range. EV remains at 1.1 and then drops to .8 where it hovers for a much needed 10 seconds. Im about a half mile from home now and ICE is off, no gas and .8 ev. EV drops like a rock as I approach the turning lane because Im still going up hill slightly.

EV hits 0. ****! Luckily, the road flattens as soon as the turning lane starts and the light is red. I slowly coast and regen. I get .3 back on my ticker. Im about a quarter mile from home.

Light turns green. From the start I have a douche bag right on my nice person. So close you'd think I was towing him. I cant afford to pull over to let this shit head past so I continue annoying him. I have to make a left and Im coasting. Its a slight down hill. I then get into the middle lane way before it turns into a turning lane. Douche slams the gas and flies by. I am now down to .1 EV, 0 ICE.

I make my left and EV drops to 0 and the display switches to HV. Im out of gas and electrons. At this point I am just very very happy I made it off the highway. The fact that I am in my neighborhood is astonishing to me.

Im coasting along in HV using EV and thinking how happy I am that this car has the safety protocols in place that gives me just a little more juice to get home. When I saw the EV drop to 0 I never even thought about the juice left in the HV partition of the traction batt.

I decide to hit the gas harder to see if it would kick on the ICE or if it was completely out of gas. There was a noticeable hesitation where the energy bar didnt seem to want to pass the middle line on the display but it did and the ICE kicked on. Thanks to the HV EV, I made it into my garage. I am now plugged in getting those precious electrons so I can make it to the gas station, about 7 miles away.....

Fun car

 

Wow I had no idea. I must've missed that thread. That makes me want to push it further. I was hoping to pass 1000 miles on this tank of gas. I'm about 950.

 

I just left to go get gas and when I got into my car it said I had 10 miles ICE left.... During the drive it dropped to 9, and 8. Even though the gas never came on. On the way home it dropped to 7, 8, and 6. Weird. It was all EV.

 

Nope. Parked the car. Turned it off. Plugged it in. And left.

 

Interesting I didn't know that Dye included EV range.

Yes I was parked on flat ground.

My last blip has been blinking for days.

 

I didn't put any in. After I saw that i was back up to 10 miles, I went to the grocery store, bought junk food and drove home.