After Receiving my vehicle back, a lovely Audi A3 sportback 1.8T SE in beautiful Pearl Black I decided to do an economy run.
I usually get around 10l/100km on average, which is a far cry from the claimed figures, but that could be due to my "aggresive" driving style. Nevertheless, I controlled my urges and accelerated slow off the line and kept my speeds steady under the limits.
The result? well I achieved about 15% better fuel economy, averaging 8.6l/100km on the tank. Good then, or is it? It is better, but I don't uinderstand why it is still far off from the manufacturers claim.
Oh and another thing - The efficiency mode, I understand the concept, it disengages the flywheel so the vehicles coasts freely when not acdcelerating, similar to having a manual car in neutral. My question is how does this save fuel when the modern engine uses no fuel when "rolling" in gear, whereas at idle there is a constant consumption keeping the engine running.
there is also a dynamic mode.. which i am currently pushing hard to see how bad the consumption can get. Initial results look similar to how the economy run went (but in the opposite direction) about 15% higher consumption. Stay tuned for final results...
I usually get around 10l/100km on average, which is a far cry from the claimed figures, but that could be due to my "aggresive" driving style. Nevertheless, I controlled my urges and accelerated slow off the line and kept my speeds steady under the limits.
The result? well I achieved about 15% better fuel economy, averaging 8.6l/100km on the tank. Good then, or is it? It is better, but I don't uinderstand why it is still far off from the manufacturers claim.
Oh and another thing - The efficiency mode, I understand the concept, it disengages the flywheel so the vehicles coasts freely when not acdcelerating, similar to having a manual car in neutral. My question is how does this save fuel when the modern engine uses no fuel when "rolling" in gear, whereas at idle there is a constant consumption keeping the engine running.
there is also a dynamic mode.. which i am currently pushing hard to see how bad the consumption can get. Initial results look similar to how the economy run went (but in the opposite direction) about 15% higher consumption. Stay tuned for final results...