JohnSnowNW
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Not bad considering how badly they screwed up the launch, anyway.
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Here are numbers I've seen so far. Keep in mind Chrysler isn't giving me any data read outs other than MPG.
When I drove the Pacifica from Virginia to Texas during thanksgiving day weekend, I was averaging around 30 mpg pure highway driving.
When I'm driving pure electric, it's averaging out to around 79 mpg.
When the wife blasts the heater to turn the van into the 7th layer of hell, which forces the engine to turn on, the mpg drops to an average of around 42-56 mpg. I haven't driven the van in pure hybrid mode city. I will do that at some point, and report back.
Keep in mind with the last two mpg numbers, it's what my wife has been driving. She's not as concerned with driving efficiently as I am. I can usually do 4.2 miles/kWh in my Leaf. When she drives my Leaf, she averages around 3.2-3.5.
I wanted to follow up with MPG performance now that I've had a few more months of driving.
For normal city commuting I've been hovering in between 27 mpg, and 45 mpg. Most of the time I'm averaging around 32-36 mpg. This may not seem like a lot, but the reason is because of our Colorado weather. When it's cold outside, and I turn the heater on, the car jumps immediately to the gas engine. This annoys me, but it makes sense I guess. The most efficient way to get heat is to burn gas. That's what's been dropping my mpg numbers (it's been freaking cold the last two months!). What I've noticed though is when I'm driving on our 60 degree days, and I'm not using the heater, my numbers start jumping into the low 40s for mpg.
So from my observations it looks like if you live in a cold climate in winter, then you're going to take a mpg hit to heat the car. What I'm looking forward to though is spring, summer, and early fall numbers. If I'm not using the heater, or using the AC in the summer (I'm really hoping it's an electrically powered AC compressor), then I anticipate my rolling MPG average to improve dramatically. I'm thinking 50s to 60s mpg range. If that's the case then I think this purchase is well worth it. Where else can you get a seven passenger, three row vehicle with those kind of city mpg numbers without it costing the price of a small house?
I'll keep yall updated as time goes by. Have a good one.
So from my observations it looks like if you live in a cold climate in winter, then you're going to take a mpg hit to heat the car.
You didn't get the 1st and 2nd row heated seats package?
Or you have a whole basketball team to haul around that needs to be warm in the 3rd row?
Or the heated seats are not effective?
Heating the seats in most cars is effective and much more efficient than heating all the air inside the car.
Plus the kids I have now are all in car seats, so heated seats wouldn't be effective for them anywayI did not. I got the more basic model. I wouldn't have gotten those features if I were buying a gas version of a van, and I wanted my incentives (federal/Colorado) to get be below $30k for the cost of the van. If I got those options it would have basically cancelled out my Colorado incentive.
Plus the kids I have now are all in car seats, so heated seats wouldn't be effective for them anyway
I bet those damned Norwegians have and they're holding out on us haha.I see new market for electrically heated cloth diapers. Oh wait there might be a problem with that ... Seriously, has anyone ever created heated car seats?
As I suspected a couple of weeks of warm weather, and my MPG numbers passed above 50 MPG for the first time (this is average MPG that's now a few thousand miles). So yeah I'm definitely not complaining. 50 mpg for a full size seven passenger car for $29k? I'll take that any day of the week.
It's been almost all city driving. When I drove the van cross country on I-40 I was in the mid to high 20's for MPG.What is your town:highway miles ratio, would you guess? Your number makes sense as the Mitsubishi is getting 60+ in the UK reportedly.
It's been almost all city driving. When I drove the van cross country on I-40 I was in the mid to high 20's for MPG.
Another follow up. Right before we hit the highway, the van had been essentially driving all city for over a month and a half. It was hitting 70 mpg average. That to me is awesomesauce.It's been almost all city driving. When I drove the van cross country on I-40 I was in the mid to high 20's for MPG.