Letting go of gas especially on down slopes helps with regen.
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I modified my pulse and glide technique to finally get a mileage of 27km/L. With AC on of course.
Pulse up to desired speed and let go of the throttle to deactivate engine and get the ECO bar up to 2 dots to activate the motor. Letting go of gas especially on down slopes helps with regen.
The problem I'm now facing is that on speeds like 60 to 80 the car will not maintain the constant speed while on battery with 2 dots on the ECO. It needs at least 4 to maintain the constant speed. It rarely ever drives on battery after 2 dots. It can very well handle it because I've seen it do it a few times.
Even cruise control turns on the engine more often and isn't as eco-friendly as using it in my Honda City.
I feel like Toyota should update the firmware to optimize the hybrid system to maximise handling of the initial acceleration and maintaining constant speed by the battery more often and have a higher threshold where the engine activates.
Another thing that I wanted to mention is that after driving this car for so long I completely forgot what pure power feels like. I drove my Honda City after so long that a little tap on the accelerator sent it flying. Drove the Fortuner right after and man. Hyryder's no fun to drive unless it's on power mode. The Power mode on the Hyryder feels straight out of their motor sports division. I kept up with a quick BMW X1 driver this morning. All that while still getting 31Km/For the trip .
We had fun.
I love this car. It's my Ultimate Daily, but the lack of thrill is really felt. Its too refined and that's great but
It's only when sitting in a good 4cyl ICE car makes you go full Emperor Palpatine.
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