Well, not quite. Actually only 1477 as of tonight. But long enough to share some thoughts. In general, we are very pleased with our decision to buy the e-tron.
We are now just a bit into our third tank of gas (petrol). Overall, that's 66.4 mpg compared to 39.2 mpg over the 60,000 miles in the TDI. We've only used the ICE twice during normal in town driving, on days when we needed to take two trips instead of our typical single trip. Even those days will not need ICE now that I have my 220v connection working.
Other random thoughts:
This car beeps to much! The most annoying are the seatbelt and passenger airbag chimes. May have to see about VCDS for those.
Hybrid mode gives great economy as long as the battery is charged. The couple of times I've used hybrid where I had battery available for the whole trip I got over 52-53 mpg. But once depleted, there doesn't seem to be any difference in behavior or economy between hybrid and hold battery modes. In those cases, we get highway mileage of about 40 in either mode.
Charge battery mode was much faster than I'd expected, but didn't seem to gain us much the one time I tried it on a longer trip. Only took about 40 minutes of driving to go from empty to full. But when I then switched to hybrid mode, it was depleted before too long.
Which brings us back to hybrid mode. Why is it calibrated to use up all the battery so fast? If the trip is longer than 150 miles, anything beyond that is just the same as hold battery. Would be nice if it could make longer use of the battery in hybrid mode.
Not impressed with the wiper blades, which is consistent with my experiences with factory blades for the TDI. May need to get a pair of PIAAs.
I'm sure I'll think of more, will add them to this thread as I do.
We are now just a bit into our third tank of gas (petrol). Overall, that's 66.4 mpg compared to 39.2 mpg over the 60,000 miles in the TDI. We've only used the ICE twice during normal in town driving, on days when we needed to take two trips instead of our typical single trip. Even those days will not need ICE now that I have my 220v connection working.
Other random thoughts:
This car beeps to much! The most annoying are the seatbelt and passenger airbag chimes. May have to see about VCDS for those.
Hybrid mode gives great economy as long as the battery is charged. The couple of times I've used hybrid where I had battery available for the whole trip I got over 52-53 mpg. But once depleted, there doesn't seem to be any difference in behavior or economy between hybrid and hold battery modes. In those cases, we get highway mileage of about 40 in either mode.
Charge battery mode was much faster than I'd expected, but didn't seem to gain us much the one time I tried it on a longer trip. Only took about 40 minutes of driving to go from empty to full. But when I then switched to hybrid mode, it was depleted before too long.
Which brings us back to hybrid mode. Why is it calibrated to use up all the battery so fast? If the trip is longer than 150 miles, anything beyond that is just the same as hold battery. Would be nice if it could make longer use of the battery in hybrid mode.
Not impressed with the wiper blades, which is consistent with my experiences with factory blades for the TDI. May need to get a pair of PIAAs.
I'm sure I'll think of more, will add them to this thread as I do.