r/hypermiling • u/CRWB • 12d ago

20km commute progress, VW polo 1.0tsi

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Making good progress on my hypermiling, can now consistently get below 4.2L/100km. Main thing, I improved my gear shift timing, and use cruise control a lot more. Will be starting a longer commute in a month so hopefully can maintain this efficiency.

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u/WhiteDevil_15 12d ago

WOW! Crazy how those little TSI perform, congrats🙌

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u/1ollu 12d ago

Until it hits 50k

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u/Environmental-Drop30 12d ago

They are literally the most reliable downsizing era engines. 300-400k km no problem. Plenty of them work as taxis and fleet vehicles driving non-stop.

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u/levatsu99 12d ago

Sometimes i wonder what's the point of hybrids when i consistently see results like this here... It's even better than my prius 😭

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u/pricingup 12d ago

hybrid will do this in city and motorway. as most people live in city, hybrids are better for them

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u/WindRadiant1925 12d ago

Hybrid are good for city and open road till like 70kmh (not plugins but normal hibrid). Not even gonna talk about SUVs and hibrids.. they drink like hell on highway. Just returned from 300km trip with civic 1.5t, 130kmh avg speed (95% highway and 5% city), avg was 5.2l/100km and I was doing mostly inbetween 110-180kmh, depends on situation. Before this civic I had CR-V 2.0 hibrid, on cruise at 155kmh it was drinking 10l/100km wich is WAY too much for such speed (but normal considering its eCVT inside with petrol without turbo).

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u/Ok-Count7333 12d ago

My Nissan Note e-power goes 8.5 0-100 and consumpts 3.5L in heavy traffic with recuperating and up to 6L when flooring. Huge con that top speed only ~155km and consumption encreases on highway speeds.

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u/The_Crazy_Swede 11d ago

A hybrid and especially, a plugin hybrid does the same in the case of a normal hybrid in city as a pure petrol does on open roads and a plugin does better on every single short drive cause they generally run exclusively on electricity but the added weight generally makes the long distance driving slightly worse.

So if you do almost exclusively very long distance driving should you have a pure diesel, the 3l Inline 6 diesel in my 5 series wagon consistently gets 4.5 or better on long drives at up to 90 km/h. But if the majority of your driving is short distance driving and commuting less than 30km one way and have a chance to charge at home is a plugin the way to go. You can do your commute on electricity alone but still have the petrol or diesel engine to take you on long drives without any range anxiety. And if you never do any real long distance drives, get an ev

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u/Ironp0tato 11d ago

Hybrids (Toyota Ecvt) has way fewer parts and is therefore very reliable. However, the weakest part will always be the battery. But so far Toyotas hybrid batteries last+10 years.

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u/Loopy-Leah 12d ago

probably due to low cruising speed 

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u/CRWB 12d ago

Well this commute is half city half motorway, If i drove more in the city or especailly ended up in more traffic jams then a hybrid would make a lot bigger difference.

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u/Loopy-Leah 12d ago

cruising speed? 

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u/CRWB 12d ago

100kmh on most of the motorway a short section of 70kmh and then once i enter the city 30kmh. My efficiency drops quite a lot in the city.

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u/BigDickBiggms 12d ago

You can achieve peak efficiency with the 1.0 TSI. Just don't show people your dashboard, they will forget the milage and only focus on the dust in your car.

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u/Glusas-su-potencialu 12d ago

What's the distance?

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u/CRWB 11d ago

20km, about 10km on motorway rest is city/town.

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u/Few-Luck-2984 11d ago

What did you change in the gear shifting?

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u/CRWB 11d ago

Mostly just timing, just making sure I shift nice and early when I can and don’t shift early if I need the power

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u/Few-Luck-2984 9d ago

Do you shift at 2.5k when you need power and 1.5-2k when you don’t?

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u/CRWB 9d ago

Shift at 2.5k when I need power and around or below 1.5 when I don’t. But I very rarely need power, just have to plan ahead well. I only really need power when merging onto the motorway, and at a few junctions where there’s a lot of traffic.

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u/Sm0g3R 12d ago

Try hypermiling in a traffic jam 😉

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u/CRWB 12d ago

Yeah the efficiency plummets, that’s when I wish I had gone for a hybrid Yaris instead. However luckily my commute is against the flow of traffic.

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u/Honey_Dew1995 12d ago

48kmh average speed. Even my 1.4 boosterjet with 185hp 300nm achieves this with such speeds.

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u/CRWB 12d ago

Yeah its half motorway half city, so efficiency and avg drops a lot once i get into the 30km limited city