After a week of driving, the gas motor has only come on three times. One cold morning it came on I assume to get the heater going. I have not checked to see of it has supplemental electric heating element.
The first day we drove it, we had a bunch of errands to run, and had to go by the Court house, so we exceeded the range of total electric power.
Went into "power" mode (a generous description to be sure) getting on the interstate on an up hill ramp. Even on a relatively short up hill ramp, I still did not have any issue reaching 75 before merging in with traffic.
Nice and warm this morning, and never had to gun it, so the gas motor never came on.
We get this cute little read out summary of each trip when we turn off the car. Here is what it looked like. I realize 999 miles per gallon is just the max readout number available. I also realize that doesn't take into consideration what they refer to as Emiles per gallon, which is a direct correlation of amount of electricity used. I will figure those out after I get my handy dandy electricity monitor so I can see exactly how much electricity I am using to recharge the HV battery. Just thought it was funny; and we could all use a little laughter right now.
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