Hi Jess and everyone,

Many thanks for your tips. I will experiment with the car's Instantaneous Mileage Display to see how I can maximise on fuel economy.

Could someone please tell me what the acronyms "Samba" "EV" and "ICE" mean?

 

Hi Drive-a-hybrid,

"Samba" refers to the iFCD meter "dancing" from up and down from 100mpg to 0mpg, back up and back down.

"EV", is Electric Vehicle mode. In the case of the HCH II, when in EV Glide mode, the engine stops burning fuel and the car uses more power from the battery pack. This mode is recommended if you have 6, 7 or 8 bars of battery state of charge.

"ICE" is your Internal Combustion Engine.

Jess

 

I picked up an '09 in June '10 just before the super heat hit the midwest, I had a reall hard time keeping the thing charged, I did open a rear window a bit and installed a solar window vent, This cooled the interior somewhat but also provided cooler air to the batteries via the vent at the top of the seat. I am sure the car sat at the dealer for a while (MONTHS) and I now rarely ever see less than 4 bars Nor does it recal like it was doing, I am a believer that interior temp as well as outdoor temp have major effects on the batteries, the affect all other batteries why would these be different. I do keep an eye on it and I have not had a recal in over 2 weeks and my mileage has shot up to 44, I'm happy!

 

You brought my thread back from the dead! Glad you were able to get your recals under control.

I don't think there has ever been a time over the past 17 months of ownership when my car has recalibrated less often than once per week. Even last winter with very mild temperatures it was happening at least once every 2-3 days. It's steadily getting worse and now averaging about once per day, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day depending on how much I drive. I did some logging for a few weeks in August and it came out to about once every 12 miles. Leaving the windows partially rolled down when parked and always using a sun shade don't seem to make any difference. It is hot, but I still find this to be unacceptable and am trying to work with a local dealer to resolve it.

 

My 2009 is a nightmare with 30k kms on it, had all the updates done and they seemed to fix it for about a week, now I am back to about 3 recals a day on my 70 km commute. It completely saps the economy I am struggling to get 5.0 L per 100 km, I used to get 4.1 L per 100 km in the first 8 months of ownership.

So disappointed i made this purchase, I loved it it though before this issue popped up. Love / Hate thing going on.