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Originally Posted by TexAg91
Great MPG, but you're saying you added 8 miles of EV range by leaving it in hold mode over your 400 mile trip? I thought hold mode just maintained the current battery state of charge? If I understand correctly, that's surprising -- sounds like hold mode is a recharge mode if the battery is depleted. That also means if you hadn't used the engine to recharge the PHEV battery to 20% (8miles/40 miles) you would have gotten even higher MPG.
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I have found that once the battery is depleted in any mode, if you place it into HOLD, on average you can regenerate about 5 miles. The exception was leaving the Blueridge Parkway, going down the mtn for over 30+ miles, I picked up almost 20 miles.... (engine braking and coasting) That was wild!