Miles

[PAISLEY1903]

Drove down to my meeting today 4 hours used android auto (driving back on toyota sat nav after messing around with a setting Thursday so will let everyone know how I get on).

What confused me though...

When I got into the car it said I had ..

Range 537

Miles car has done 461

I knew it was 230 to location 

So I expected with taking it easy it would read on arrival 

 

Range - 537-230=307 but it shows 248!!! I was expecting it to be higher than 302 with electric mode so I'm a bit confused with what's happened

Miles car has done has went from 

461 to 691 which Is the 230 spot on.

So I am thinking I'm going to just about scrape home now but wondered why the range was so far out... my old kuga was normally spot on.

I was raging as well as my mpg which was at 52 is now 48 🤣 

[philip42h]

Craig, you need to update your profile to make it clear which RAV you have ...

... assuming a HEV rather than a PHEV, then potting around near to home you'll get pretty good fuel economy - you claim 52 mpg above.

Range is a simple estimation (aka guess) based on the amount of fuel in your tank and your current / recent fuel economy. So when you set out it guessed that you'd continue at 52 mpg for about 537 miles.

But you didn't. Instead, you hared off down the motorway - I'm assuming motorway speeds here - and promptly dropped the economy to 45 / 46 mpg - that's about what you'll get at motorway speeds since the petrol engine now has to do quite a lot of the work. So, at the end of the journey when it guesses the range again it's going to use the new and lower recent fuel economy figure - and the expected range drops accordingly.

Stick to 55 mph on the way home and you'll make it easily ... 😉

 

[PAISLEY1903]

Cheers mate didn't spot that in profile ! 

Hahaha! That explains it ! 

55mph brilliant saying that I'm using toyota sat nav to get home to test it so from Manchester to paisley might take me via London so I'm screwed regardless 

[Cyker]

Yeah, there's a reason why EV drivers call the range thing a GOM, or Guess-o-meter  

I mostly ignore it and use the trip counter; I know roughly how far the car can go on a tank, and just make a point not to go too far into that before refueling!