Fuel efficiency

[peniole]

Completed it's first big road trip. Covered 700ish miles between the UK and Germany. Still in it's break in period, so was varying speed and RPMs. Despite that still managed to peg the MPG scale on the UK side (60MPG). Filled up, and on the EU side saw 63.2 MPG, but settled down once we arrived at 61MPG. Car was in normal mode, not ECO. Seriously impressive fuel efficiency for a 1.6-1.7ton, nearly 5 meter boat of a car. Finally resting after a proper wash and detail next to my old 10G civic, which will be sold soon. Will get better images in the wild once I'm not so shattered.

Edited August 7, 2021 by peniole
correction, length

[royoftherovers]

A nice report Peniole, thanks. Exceptional fuel consumption, even better than HonestJohn (Peter Lorimer) obtained in his ES.

[e-yes]

Well done Peniole.

The best part is that even if you have to drive it fast for prolonged periods, the economy doesn’t drop by a lot. But if you are prepared to drive gently, prepared to be surprised.

I once got 100MPG !!!

[Dippo]

2 hours ago, peniole said:

 nearly 6 meter boat of a car

Surely 5 metre?

[peniole]

2 minutes ago, Dippo said:

Surely 5 metre?

You are correct! Slip of the numpad.

[peniole]

UPDATE:

So after a couple more thousand miles, this car is happiest as a very long distance cruiser. My current commute is mostly motorway 28 miles each way, some in town, quite a bit of up and down (elevation) = 51-52MPG. Much less then I got on the 700 mile trip.

Did a 90 mile (45 each way) motorway round trip the other day = 55MPG.

It seems the longer the drive the higher the MPG number goes. During that long trip it kept climbing till it hit that 60 peak, which was around the 200+ mile mark.

Overall impressive for such a big cruiser.

[Mike246]

If someone down the pub told me that they were getting 60 mpg off a family-size petrol car, I'd says - Yeah, pull the other one.

I took my new ES on a Sunday trip for lunch down the Hertfordshire A1 on a 70-mile round trip and also got 60 mpg. My old GS300 would have barely scraped 30.

I wonder how long I will go on the dealership's initial fill-up. Just as well given the challenge to get petrol these days!

[Initial P]

What range do you get when you fill up as I never look at the mpg stuff.

[royoftherovers]

460 IF i`VE BEEN ON A RUN, OTHERWISE 430 FROM MY 450H.

[peniole]

Last fillup was the first time I paid attention. It gave me an estimated 535 miles of range. That's when I averaged 52MPG. Wish I had paid attention when I averaged close to 60MPG on a tank.

Tank is 50L ( little under 11 gallons).

[peniole]

Confirmation of first trip fuel economy. Another Germany roundtrip, a few thousand miles more on the ODO, colder weather but similar economy as above. 320 mile drive down to Folkestone, still more than half a tank left and a very conservative estimate from the car of 259 miles remaining range from a 50L tank. Ignore the average speed, that's not been reset from the day I received the car.

 

[Shane13]

Took deliverey last Monday of new Lexus es 300h.
Due to birth of latest Grandson have completed 700 mile in a week mixed driving but large chunk motorway. I treated car gently with longest journey of 120 + mile.

Car computer said 60.1 mpg which was confirmed by doing a bit of maths on purchased petrol that showed 60mpg. 

to say I am delighted is an understatement as car is not even run in properly yet.

 

[peniole]

10 hours ago, Shane13 said:

Took deliverey last Monday of new Lexus es 300h.
Due to birth of latest Grandson have completed 700 mile in a week mixed driving but large chunk motorway. I treated car gently with longest journey of 120 + mile.

Car computer said 60.1 mpg which was confirmed by doing a bit of maths on purchased petrol that showed 60mpg. 

to say I am delighted is an understatement as car is not even run in properly yet.

 

That's exactly right!  0.1 difference between stated mpg and pump calculation pretty consistently. If its a lot more than that, especially if you have used the same pump consecutively, then they're cheating at that pump. Caught a local shell skimming 5%, reported and confirmed by standards.

Yes 60 is easily achievable with long runs, it doesn't like shorter journeys as much. Expect 50s then, still respectable for a barge that size.