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Originally Posted by SteveinArizona
Highway driving is not a strong point for hybrids. If you put on the display that shows which motor is being used, you will see that on highways in auto mode you are mostly using the ICE.
Also, once the battery is depleted you will mostly be using the ICE with the battery primarily providing boost.
If fuel efficiency is your goal, and you do mostly highway driving, then a hybrid phev is probably not the best vehicle for you.
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For you guys in the US, just to give you the better sense for these numbers, my modest G20 318diesel uses less then 6.5l/100km when cruising at 150kmh(=94mph). At 170kmh(=106mph) consumption is around 7,5l/100km, and at 180kmh(=112mph) at 8.2l/100km. Nothing comes even close to diesels when doing high-speed highway driving. That's why they're still so popular in europe.
In most EU markets, hybrids sales would plummet if the government stopped giving subsidies and tax deductions on them as the financial side of hybrids still can't beat diesel cars, not even closely.