Re: New to kia
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 7:36 am
You have to be a Which? subscriber to look at the results online, but i took a look at their site and they seem very keen on explaining how they do their "more realistic" motorway test.
In my opinion when people buy a hybrid, it tends to be quite targeted to a specific use case, and I'm not sure that lots of motorway driving is one of those use cases. Certainly I only do a few motorway trips per year, the rest is largely 20km commute to work on B roads and out of the city.
But the cold starts are infuriating in their inflexibility - at least on the HEV you cannot make use of good battery charge to go electric out of a residential area until you hit the main road, for example (not that that would help emissions figures, but desirable in the real world).
In my opinion when people buy a hybrid, it tends to be quite targeted to a specific use case, and I'm not sure that lots of motorway driving is one of those use cases. Certainly I only do a few motorway trips per year, the rest is largely 20km commute to work on B roads and out of the city.
But the cold starts are infuriating in their inflexibility - at least on the HEV you cannot make use of good battery charge to go electric out of a residential area until you hit the main road, for example (not that that would help emissions figures, but desirable in the real world).