Rhynri

I want to know what happened with Chevy's seats. The seats in my old s10 blazer were the thrones of gods. Even if it was a rust bucket. It sure was fun to take it's narrow, tight turning rusty corpse down fourwheeler trailers though. Park it with two wheels off the ground. Ahh, good times.

My 2015 Seats are sufficient to keep pizza at "fresh from the oven" temps. Yes I know you aren't supposed to use them that way. But hey, it works.

1989 Chevy Blazer 4.3 A/T (cost me 25 cents!) - Most comfortable seats I ever sat in. 1995 Chevy Cavalier M/T - Still kicking, at 200k miles. 1995 & 2000 Camaro Z28 M/T - Just not as fun to drive as the cavalier, even if they did have a lot more power. I like corners and gravel roads. 2004 Jetta TDI M/T - I love how these sound. Great little car. 2010 Jetta TDI DSG (new) - After the army jacked up my knee. 2013 Jetta Sportwagen TDI DSG (new) - So much cargo space. Very punchy, fun car to drive. put 36k on then found the fusion. 2015 Fusion Energi - Aww yeah.... I'll also include my beloved 1986 FJ1200, even though it wasn't a car. I'll never forgive the woman who merged into the space I was occupying and destroyed it. Ran me right over. There is a warm place in hell for drivers like that.

I love my Fusion, even if she is super temperamental. ;) I still talk her up all the time because Ford's taken care of me so well. Edit: She's less common than the Tesla Model S I'd love to own someday, according to that link! Cool!

The Fusion is vastly more car than the Volt could ever hope to be. It's much more upscale and comfortable to drive. There really isn't any comparison. That and Chevy's dealers are just slimy, at least the ones around here. They had no interest in helping me get a Volt. Ford was like "We can do that" even though what they offered sounded fairly impossible to me, and they got it done. Chevy wouldn't even help me get a used 19k Volt. Ford put me in a 43k Fusion. (Before you ask, I have good credit, but my financials look really weird on paper because I'm medically retired Army.)

Tesla Model S, P85D for a test drive. Dear god. I think my eyeballs changed shape.

Wowza. That's quite the setup. Would you mind linking what router you used, for myself and future visitors? Also, for the router setup, I remember seeing a how-to on the OpenEVSE site. Did you follow that one, or are you just that awesome? :worship:

I've never charged it there. So far as I know, they never have either. If anything, the opposite happens, it goes there with a full battery and comes back stone dead, the ignition having been on for several hours. It's just been there a lot. That, and it was kind of a joke, sorry! ;)

Gotcha. Sorry for using "Rolled over". It's how we always referred to trucks (like my old trusty '82 Chevy 6.2 Diesel) that didn't have a 100,000s place on the odometer and went over 100,000 miles. That being said, wish they gave a place in car for lifetime numbers.

It's more likely that because the car has so few miles, it was unable to accurately calculate the range, so you got your 600 number. Once you have driven it for a time on gas, it computes an average and can calculate from that. The more miles you put on it the more accurate your range will be to your average driving style.

I've got an appointment for the car. You know you've been to the dealer for service issues too often when your car goes into EV+ mode whenever you drive by. (And the dealership is not even in my GPS.)

Does anyone know if the EV miles rolls over on the trip meter? Right now it says it took me 340ish kwh to drive 100ish miles. Which is either a glitch or the trip log rolled over to zero at some point.

Thanks for that link, bear. That's a fantastic thread. I learned a lot from it.

Yeah, I have a notebook somewhere of all the Cavi's fills (probably still in it) I once got 27, but I literally had my foot flat to the floor nearly that entire tank (woo curvy wisconsin logging roads, and uh, yeah, I was a teenager...) otherwise, it would range from 38 to 44, generally around 40-42. It was also a (no-frills - no remote trunk release even) base model 2.2l manual, which most of the fuelly cars aren't, I'm wagering. The auto really neutered that engine, that and that super restrictive exhaust. It was like a new engine after fixing the exhaust, started much easier, and had a lot more get up and go, and better mileage. It was pretty much the first thing I did to the car when I got it (it was my first car). It probably is a pretty special Cavi, looking at the other fuelly tracked Cavaliers there. :shift: Like you mention, those old high mpg cars were often lacking in other areas. I'm well aware of how averages work, but I have seen what you mean. That said, I DID keep every tank the old fashioned way, and it was very consistant. I mentioned that the Dart weighs less than the Energi, but I think the weight varies significantly between models by up to 200 lbs. My 500lb number was from weighing both vehicles on a grain leg scale, drivers and cargo included. The Dart, as I mentioned, is (surprisingly) quite a bit bigger than a sportwagen. So I'd expect a fusion to absolutely dwarf a SW, since it's longer than a Dart, and a Dart is longer, wider, taller, and lower (ground clearance) than a sportwagen. At least for 2013 MYs for both. Go figure! My FFET has 3300 on it, about 2100 of which at my best estimate without looking at the trip meter - I haven't reset the first one since I got it - is engine-on time. At least the break-in to good mileage isn't the 20k it seems to be on the TDIs. Lastly, AFAIK the Atkinson cycle in most hybrid engines is holding the intake valve open through part of the compression stroke, and isn't integral to their start-stop abilities, since you can find start-stop on everything from v8s to diesels now. For example, the Volt does not use Atkinson cycle. I imagine the lower compression doesn't hurt though. As an addendum, I always fill on the first click (slowest setting), and always fill to full. I even try to get the same physical pump each time. I'm OCD about mileage and such to the point I tinkered with the computer on my first VW TDI because it was consistantly 2mpg off from what my pen-and-paper results were. Ever tracked MPG by writing in the dust on your dash? XD Did that too!

Well, it wouldn't be the first fluid seepage problem with this car, I already had to have some engine stuff replaced because it was leaking coolant and shorting out sensors. I'll let you know what they find.

My trip meter on the way home read 55.7 miles, 3.5 EV miles, 0.3 regen miles // 32.8 mpg, 1.7kWh, 98% brake score. That's with a tailwind and the battery eating all the actual acceleration on and off the freeway. Had the heat on as cold as I could (60F) with fan on 1 and floor vent and defrost vent selected. Car showed zero climate-control draw. I watched the instant MPG on the way home, on any downhill insufficient to switch to electricity, it would not crest 35 (my average for this tank - I've done a fair share of pure EV on it). on flats it would rarely peak above 30, and uphills it would occasionally turn yellow. RPMs on the engine never seemed to dip much below 2500. This is at 70 with very few deviations. Does this reflect other's observations? It was around 10 degrees today. I keep ~40 psi in my tires. Smelled burnt rubber out of nowhere on the drive again. Still no CEL. It also seems to plow through EV mileage. It takes a full charge to go 4-6 miles, even with the engine preheated with the block heater.

I asked the rep about it, she says that a light smell isn't out of the ordinary for the first few drives, but I shouldn't still be smelling it. I'll make an appointment.

The warm up idle is the only idle relevant to my remote start scenario I was mentioning. Because it does not seem to take remote start fuel usage into account.

The cavi number was dead of winter, subzero temps. I remember it so well because I was surprised it did that well, and I didn't normally pay attention. Even now, though at 200k+ it still gets 40+ every tank. It could just have a one-off freak engine though. The camaro... well, there is only one season you can drive that in and not be asking to wind up in the ditch. :lol: It did have a 5.7 v8 though. That being said, the Cavalier was built 20 years ago, out of spare popcans and whatever else GM could scrape together, and I'd expect the fusion to beat what I can get out of the cavalier with my foot flat to the floor. I'd also argue that while the dart has a compact interior, it's a relatively big car (bigger in every dimension than my Sportwagen was), and while it's 500 lbs lighter than the fusion, it doesn't have a CVT or a battery and can't shut it's engine off on the downhills, or stoplights, or anywhere else. I wasn't going off noise, if I was then the dart is working its ass off just idling. :lol: Seriously, that thing sounds like a helicopter is flying over my house when it pulls into the garage because of the low tones, it's got quite the growly engine. I know that the atkinson is loud because of how it works. On the Energi, just watching the RPMs vs speed fluctuate makes it look like the engine is working itself. I seem to have little benefit to going down a hill vs going up one so long as the engine is running, which is very odd in my mind no matter what engine you have in the car. I also don't see any difference when I am behind a big vehicle such as a semi to break the wind for me, at least not one that you can resolve on the MPG bar graph. I am beginning to wonder if I don't have a CVT problem though. At 3000 miles, I'm still smelling burnt rubber after every decent accelleration (and no, I'm not stomping on it, just giving it enough gas to be 60-65 at the end of a downhill on-ramp I use, not even breaking 4k rpm).

My VWs were usually spot on, but the Ford comes out optimistic for me as well. The VW you could adjust, not so sure about the Ford. One thing I've noticed is that it doesn't count remote start usage, which throws off the number quite a bit even if you don't use it much because the engine in the FFE isn't an efficient idler (it idles at 1500 when you start it).

None of the panels on my Fusion line up as well as the ones on my VW TDIs did. Probably a quality control issue.

Was there a crosswind, or was the road crowned (excessively, that is). I think that the fusion will correct for both of those, and that could be what you felt. Just a thought.

Out Cold. I laugh myself to tears every time I watch it.

I charge the car because I like being a ninja and creeping around quietly. I also like the electric drive for driving in town. Also, f@#$ gas! I hate getting out of my car in -10F to fuel up! The "savings" really weren't in consideration. :flirt: I'm just biding time until I get a Tesla and blow doors off people.

I'll weigh in and say if you can't cook your keister, there is something wrong with your seats. I'll turn on the passenger before my wife gets in and within 5 minutes it'll be warm-to-hot to the touch.