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Beeko Bill
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Post by Beeko Bill »

It might be helpful not just to consider mpg but how many miles people are getting from a full tank (assuming the Volvo has a 50 litre tank??). The reason I suggest this....I have a polo bluemotion with a claimed 80 per gal from the manufacturer. I usually see figures in the high 50s to early 60s. However, doesn’t matter what the figures show (and the can hit as high as 75mpg), I usually fill up a 40 litre tank every 500 miles or so. The figures I am therefore seeing on the trip computer are wildly inaccurate to the point of meaningless. I have a feeling that the xc40 trip computer is more aggressive the other way and folks are getting more mpg than the trip computer is suggesting. To back this up, quite a few people have posted saying an app shows better figures than the car shows.

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pjm007
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Beeko Bill wrote: Mon Jul 30, 2018 3:49 pm It might be helpful not just to consider mpg but how many miles people are getting from a full tank (assuming the Volvo has a 50 litre tank??). The reason I suggest this....I have a polo bluemotion with a claimed 80 per gal from the manufacturer. I usually see figures in the high 50s to early 60s. However, doesn’t matter what the figures show (and the can hit as high as 75mpg), I usually fill up a 40 litre tank every 500 miles or so. The figures I am therefore seeing on the trip computer are wildly inaccurate to the point of meaningless. I have a feeling that the xc40 trip computer is more aggressive the other way and folks are getting more mpg than the trip computer is suggesting. To back this up, quite a few people have posted saying an app shows better figures than the car shows.
I have been keeping tabs on each fill up via a spreadsheet. The stats tally almost exactly with the VOC app and the car - 41.6 mpg. If the tank is 54 litres as advertised then a tank full takes me 494 miles.
Two XC40s - so far! Inscription Pro T5 AWD Auto - Glacier Silver/Blond/21”, fully loaded, from Jan thro Sep 2021. Polestarred. :) Also one of the first FEs - a D4 AWD Auto - Bursting Blue/Charcoal/20" from Mar thro Aug 2018. Also Polestarred. :o
jd40
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Just done my first decent journey. Mostly motorway, ACC,70MPH, First 80 miles at 37.6 MPG. Then 118 miles at 37.1MPG.
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Rifleman
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pjm007 wrote: Mon Jul 30, 2018 4:18 pm I have been keeping tabs on each fill up via a spreadsheet. The stats tally almost exactly with the VOC app and the car - 41.6 mpg. If the tank is 54 litres as advertised then a tank full takes me 494 miles.
Boy am I going to miss my Skoda Superb 2.0Tdi 150ps!
It has a 66l tank and does an average of 49mpg urban and 60mpg on a long run, giving a range of 711 to 871 miles.
Will have to start planning my trips through France with refuelling in mind. I do a return trip Nottingham to St Ives Cornwall on less than a full tank...
XC40 | First Edition | 2.0 D4 AWD | Bursting Blue | 19" wheels | Ordered 11/03/18 | Delivered 19th October 2018.
James Blonde
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Post by James Blonde »

Averaging 35mpg on a D4 FE. I was averaging around 36-38 on my old (well 2016) XC60 D5 Polestar, so I'm disappointed a newer, lighter car with smaller, more economical engine isn't achieving more. I assumed I had a problem until I saw everyone else was getting around the same, or worse. Wonder what Polestarring the D4 will do....?
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I am currently doing 80 miles a day mainly rural driving. The Volvo app is telling me I am getting 44.1 MPG
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Optimist wrote: Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:20 pm I am currently doing 80 miles a day mainly rural driving. The Volvo app is telling me I am getting 44.1 MPG
In a D4 presumably?
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PC40
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Post by PC40 »

Just over 4000 miles and showing 32.0mpg. Mainly in Eco mode. I’m also doing the St Ives run in a few weeks time and looking to see what a long run on the M25, M4, M5 and. A30 brings. (M25 being the unknown 😂)
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Post by early adopter »

D4 FE 7700 miles and 47mpg average according to VOC which feels right, I tend to calculate consumption for most fills- I do mostly motorway runs at 75mph and I’m pretty easy on the right foot. I regularly get over 500 miles between top ups.
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Post by Mogbat975 »

My T4 AWD Auto has done 1800 miles at an average of 35.8 Mpg
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