Does nobody out there know how to help me
Looking at the original question, it seems quite clear that the distance is a fair bit beyond the EV range.
Agreed. Let the computer do its thing. At 70 mph you will be on ICE pretty quick.
NORMAL MODE. Either way, this is not the ideal car for fast long distances. The best cars for this which will save you loads of money would be a diesel for those driving conditions. Some of the more modern diesels, can give you 80 mpg. Few can beat a diesel for that kind of driving.
Tom is from California, there are not really any fuel efficient diesel vehicles in the United States. Based on the large price premium for diesel fuel here, you'd need a car in the same class that could get >45 MPG highway to have the same up front fuel costs, plus you'd need to save roughly 25-50% more than that to cover the added maintenance expenses over here. I've owned 5 diesel vehicles in the US and they are no longer an economical option here. The last two I owned (still own one) have needed EGR cooler replacements roughly every 30-45,000 miles at an out of pocket expense of over $3,000 each occurrence, on top of the much larger and more expensive oil changes, significantly more frequent and expensive fuel filter changes, fuel additive requirements to attempt to make up for our poor quality fuel standards here that destroy high pressure fuel pumps on common rail diesels, etc. All in, you'd probably need to find a diesel midsize SUV that gets 60+ MPG to compete with the Outlander running costs and total cost of ownership in the US, and we've never had anything that was even close sadly. Another quirk is our recent tax credits for used PHEV's that made purchasing my copy of the Outlander less expensive up front than literally *any* other car in the segment, bar none!
BTW, in stop and go city traffic ECO will have even greater impact, cause of frequent acceleration.
You are absolutely right. Good on you. Well noticed. You see if you drove recklessly, on normal mode, and you are a power thirst driver [eg likes to accelerate, brake suddenly, overtake, tailgate, then in Normal, the car will choose what is the best economically..normally a combination of both. Afteral, it is a hybrid, and that is what hybrids are supposed to do. You will also record your EV driving as less than 80%. It is rare that it records below 60%. If you press the EV button, then it forces the car to use EV, which means that your range of 32 miles will go to the dogs, and it will probably do only 10 miles [or even less] on EV mode, and the battery will not last 32 miles. It will last maybe 10 miles, maybe less depending on how maniacally you drive. After that, it will use petrol as there is no more battery to use. On normal mode, it is possible to attain 97% to 100% [by the car] but by gum you gotta drive very slow, no acceleration, no tailgating, no overtaking and no braking [if poss.]. EG you can get this if you were saying following a Farm Tractor, without overtaking it. But it will pee all the boy racers, hot headed, testosteron clad persons but your likelihood of getting an accident is next to zilch.
