Thread: Hybrid vs petrol - surprising outcome

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

9 litres per 100 km fuel consumption if driven normally

6.2 litre, 6 speed, it’s a hybrid because it can run on 91 or 98

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Bet thats got some sting,nice.

As a FAL holder I wouldn't put a pic on a public site with my license plate visible

Great thread. Thanks @Flyblown

Mates have own power set up with lots of solar and battery capacity.they bought hybrid a year ago for daily commute and may be in trouble when go to use the petrol as still on same tank car was bought with. Highly unique situation but with many opting for living off grid it does make sense somewhat.....and I hate the idea of going away from ICE.cant see myself ever owning electric car...bike a big maybe.

Hybrids certainly lose their advantage when you start doing a bit of open road driving.
I did a wof on a Prius the other day, had 830,000km on the clock!

Thanks for the write up @Flyblown, thanks for effort.
Our situation is almost exactly the same as yours, although our boys are 15 and 12, so have a bit more time.
Great food for thought.

Originally Posted by 300winmag

I turn 65 next week and I’m a few years off retirement but I tend to slow down.
I took my green machine for a quick squirt today, a couple hundred km’s, didn’t take long, filled it with 98 before I left but didn’t look at the fuel gauge when I got back but must have been in the 20ltr/100km range

20 L per hundred. Whats a green "machine" ? please.
Getting a bit off track here but,
My daily drive/work/tow the boat vehicle is an older (2008) 4.4 litre v8 range rover ave 13.3 L per hundred.
Was considering getting a hybrid for general runabout but probably not worth the added rego etc expense and usually carting too much stuff anyway.
NRF.

"Green machine" is probably a kawasaki ninja? Great thread

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Mates have own power set up with lots of solar and battery capacity.they bought hybrid a year ago for daily commute and may be in trouble when go to use the petrol as still on same tank car was bought with. Highly unique situation but with many opting for living off grid it does make sense somewhat.....and I hate the idea of going away from ICE.cant see myself ever owning electric car...bike a big maybe.

That's about the only time an EV makes sense really - for anyone else who doesn't control generation and supply of the power you are crazy vulnerable to outages and then you are stuck without being able to travel...

looked at it for daughter a year or two ago..she lives in Christchurch and doesnt have drivers licence (dont get me started on that one) even if she did.... purchase cost wise a electric bike is similar to a small 2nd hand car with nearly zero running costs..inside city limits the 30kmph top speed is no barrier.raincoat fixs the other major disadvantage..yes no protection in a crash,but no worse off than on current push bike and darn sight more reliable, and convenient than the buses.

Green machine Aston Martin i think,a real car.

I used to have a 2.5L skyline that used about 12L/100km. When petrol was almost going to hit $1.50/L I got a 1L manual Suzuki Swift as a daily runabout. This was a steep learning curve as the fuel usage was not what I expected. The 1L car on the open road used 8L/100km, now my 1.5L uses 7L/100 km and 6.2 on the open road.
This also shows I have some inefficient driving habits

Originally Posted by No good names left

I used to have a 2.5L skyline that used about 12L/100km. When petrol was almost going to hit $1.50/L I got a 1L manual Suzuki Swift as a daily runabout. This was a steep learning curve as the fuel usage was not what I expected. The 1L car on the open road used 8L/100km, now my 1.5L uses 7L/100 km and 6.2 on the open road.
This also shows I have some inefficient driving habits

There's a sweet spot between a tiny engine that's really too small for the size/weight of what it's moving so it's at full power the whole time and max fuel useage, to a really big engine that's idling most of the time on a very light fuel burn and doesn't use much but in the equation you have purchase cost, maintenance, weight and bulk and parts cost...

Originally Posted by No.3

There's a sweet spot between a tiny engine that's really too small for the size/weight of what it's moving so it's at full power the whole time and max fuel useage, to a really big engine that's idling most of the time on a very light fuel burn and doesn't use much but in the equation you have purchase cost, maintenance, weight and bulk and parts cost...

I used to have a 1.6 Suzuki vitara that worked hard on the open road

Think it was a 1989 model and the carburettor would freeze up early in the morning at highway speeds, had a wee snorkel on the air filter housing that you turned around to inhale the hot air off the exhaust manifold

It used about 80% throttle at highway speeds and wasn’t good on fuel at all

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

I used to have a 1.6 Suzuki vitara that worked hard on the open road

Think it was a 1989 model and the carburettor would freeze up early in the morning at highway speeds, had a wee snorkel on the air filter housing that you turned around to inhale the hot air off the exhaust manifold

It used about 80% throttle at highway speeds and wasn’t good on fuel at all

I am running a 1.6 Vitara and a 3l V6 Avalon.I use both for towing the trailer and choose which one depending on where I am going and what I am getting. If I have to drive on any slightly dubious surface that the Avalon may slip on I take the Vitara. With regards to economy (and I drive a bit like a lil ole lady.... ) the mileage between them is near enough to identical. Around 9.5km per litre for both. But one is far more comfortable to spend time in....

Hybrids have their uses...and they are best suited for lots of round town / slow speed running - think taxis which is where the 830,000km one mentioned by @makka would be how these ks are achieved.