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Ok so....99.9L/100Km. What the heck?
both my wife and I struggle (in pleasure that is!) to get the best possible efficiency out of out car and we are getting very adept at maximizing the fuel we do use and this comes hand in hand with learning how the car functions best in various situations et al blah blah.
However in the first 5mins of operation (esp. now that it's getting colder) the car will run the gas motor for a couple of mins we assume to warm the "juices" and get everything up to operating temp and so on. Unfortunately the "current" usage reads 99.9L/100Km during this period (usually the first 5mins) and that actually seems to register towards our average!! That cannot be correct at all. There is no possible way ANY car could be that inefficient to use basically 1L per KM equivalent.
Can someone explain this glitch in the matrix? Exactly what is happening during this period of operation and why / how could it be possible to use 1L per Km of fuel during idle. This to me seems to be a falsehood and it's unfortunate because it ruins our average that we strive so hard to achieve with our new found "Prius driving prowess"(tm.).
Help!
both my wife and I struggle (in pleasure that is!) to get the best possible efficiency out of out car and we are getting very adept at maximizing the fuel we do use and this comes hand in hand with learning how the car functions best in various situations et al blah blah.
However in the first 5mins of operation (esp. now that it's getting colder) the car will run the gas motor for a couple of mins we assume to warm the "juices" and get everything up to operating temp and so on. Unfortunately the "current" usage reads 99.9L/100Km during this period (usually the first 5mins) and that actually seems to register towards our average!! That cannot be correct at all. There is no possible way ANY car could be that inefficient to use basically 1L per KM equivalent.
Can someone explain this glitch in the matrix? Exactly what is happening during this period of operation and why / how could it be possible to use 1L per Km of fuel during idle. This to me seems to be a falsehood and it's unfortunate because it ruins our average that we strive so hard to achieve with our new found "Prius driving prowess"(tm.).
Help!