5 Tips how to drive Hybrid-Cars really efficiently!

Ecodriver shows you 5 simple Tricks of how to save on fuel and drive really efficiently with hybrid cars. Don't worry, this is not one of those turn-off-the-heating-when-it's-freezing-outside-Videos, this is proper use of Hybrids.

[JiriqueSade]

I have been searching for the information you have provided in your excellent video on the internet during the last 2 years frustrated, disappointed and without success. Your instruction is the best, most intelligent and the only user’s guide how to drive hybrid cars efficiently (at least) in English language. You must be not only expert in the subject but concise in explaining it. Thank You!
By the way a lot of your advice could also apply to normal combustion engines. I had a VW Golf SDI which had done 150000 miles in nearly 20 years. On average I got the max MPG possible for that model, i.e. 65mpg (3.6l/100km) simply by the way I drove. Except the consumables everything else was still the original including the battery and the exhaust.

[whateverwhenever_]

It is easier said than done to accelerate gently and drive efficiently when non hybrid drivers are always in a hurry and behind you

[stevesalter]

I have learnt such a lot from your tips on ECO driving and have increase my overall mpg on my 1.6 diesel mild hybrid Sportage. Thanks for the excellent advice.

[johnmc]

I just purchased a 2019 Ford Fusion Hybrid, with 13, 000 ‘murica units, so I really appreciate the tips/tricks. I am very much looking forward to developing my efficiency maximizing techniques over the next weeks & months.

[hotprop]

I agree great advise!
One thing I would add though, if I may. A very important factor in deciding which type of vehicle, whether hybrid, plug-in or full electric, is the length of the trips you take. I find that a hybrid needs, at a bare minimum, 6miles(10 k) to begin to see the benefit of it's technology and that longer would be better especially in the winter. One or two mile trips to the grocery store or church get an electric or plug-in. If that's not practical for some reason, may just as well stay with a regular internal combustion engined(ICE) car.
Looking forward to watching your other videos, oh and your english is very good. I know no one who's english is perfect and would feel more comfortable keeping it that way.

[eudega]

Great content here and in all your videos. Thank you for making them available in English!

[sebastiansalcedo]

Saw the video on the Yaris Cross and was impressed, I was about to comment asking for a video on tips for driving more efficient.
But it is already here and I am already subscribed :)

[maxheadroom]

I'm am thinking about getting a hybrid (Toyota Corolla). Found these tips and advice very informative. Thank you for posting them!

[TommyG]

Great video, I drive a Sonata hybrid and love it, all your points are spot on.

[georgios]

Hello from Greece !!!! I have got the yaris cross and really the instructions you have given us are very important and correct I have applied them and the gas consumption both outside the city and inside the city is 3.4 to 3.5 liters per 100 kilometers the driving speed is within the Limits and a little more than those of the traffic signals!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[alanharvey]

Thanks for all the useful tips. Have been getting used our Dacia Jogger Hybrid and am loving the more relaxed driving and trying to get the best economy from the car.

[JXP]

Excellent! Very informative and educational. Was actually reassuring to see the explanations and see that we are already doing this in our standard diseal but can be refined for when we get a plugin. Hope to see more of these in future :) 👍😎😁

[NigelRudyard]

Great advice. I've always thought the key to it is (1) maintaining momentum, and (2) mechanical sympathy -- every car has its own strengths and weaknesses, and therefore requires a different technique.

[ezraalbin]

Nice vid. I have a Camry SE Hybrid (loaded). Nice size, looks sharp and 60 mpgs.

[rf]

Thanks for the tips! My avg now is 4.9 to 5.2L/100km.

[falcorzed]

Amazing, I was doing all of this except the last tip on my own after months of experimenting. I am now able to get a minimum of 5.1 miles per kilowatt on my EV. Sometimes when I use the cruise control to provide slow acceleration I get as high as 6mpKw

[briank]

I do nearly all the tips you mention in my 2018 Camry Hybrid except the accelerating gently. Typically, taking 50 seconds to accelerate slowly to 100 kph will use the same amount of fuel as taking 25 seconds to 100 kph, the fuel flow rate may be double but for half the time. Also, I would rather a direct fuel to wheel energy flow, than fuel/recovered braking energy to battery and then battery back to wheel energy flow with the significant conversion losses. When I see a green light 500 meters away, it's more probable to be red when you get there and if you see a red light 500m away it more probable to be green when you get there. If you see that it's already red for a while or already green for a while then you can adjust your prediction of what it will be when you get to the light.
My simple rule is almost never accelerate to a speed such that you will have to then immediately use the brakes to reduce it. It's not so much how quickly you accelerate but getting to the best speed such that you don't have to destroy the valuable excess momentum you just produced. I can't understand how people race up to what is clearly slower moving traffic ahead and turn most of their momentum (i.e. fuel) into waste heat via the brakes. Good use of these techniques also extends your brake hardware life by an order of magnitude. Slow accelerating hybrid drivers onto a motorway or open road with nothing to cause them to brake ahead is the bane of the hybrid driver "profession".
Accelerating hybrids slowly in every traffic situation is low down on the list of what will bring improvements in efficiency that you will notice. Even worse some of these slow accelerating hybrid ecowarriors brake at the last minute thinking that the braking doesn't use the fuel when it is burning off the precious excess momentum that they generated unnecessarily.

[djlawre]

Hi! I apreciate a lot what you're doing! Can u please make a video for ioniq plug in? Or ioniq hybrid! I'm thinking about one of them!

[mieseskarma]

Respekt, für dein Alter sprichst du sehr gutes Englisch! 😊

[barrycrosby]

Good advice I use most if not all of the techniques described and get average mpg of 70 in my toyota Corolla touring sports hybrid but I drive in normal mode and use ac as I still value comfort and don't want to hold up traffic but I have done a eco test and achieved 82 mpg on a mix of city and highway driving and I believe there is still some room for improvement my average score is 95 the big advantage of hybrid particularly toyota due to the fact that they have the most experience in the industry is the car is cheaper to purchase only about 50%of the cost of a full electric and no need to plug in