Realistic highway fuel consumption of Hyundai Tucson

The trip started at A. Bonifacio highway between Quezon City and Caloocan. The route runs through Balintawak, NLEX, then Plaridel Bypass Road up to Bustos Bulacan. We went to inner roads from Bustos to be able to get out to San Rafael Bulacan's part of Pan Philippine highway. We followed the road until the intersection of Camias-Sibul road, turned right from there and drive for 15kms more before arriving at the destination. We followed the same route on way back to Metro Manila.

We have 1 stop-over at SM Savemore San Ildefonso to buy some pasalubongs.

It's a 170+ km trip consuming almost 13L of fuel. That translates to 13.2km/L, far from the very optimistic result of 22km/L I got on my Insane Highway efficiency test a week ago.

Traffic Condition

It was actually a nice drive yesterday. We had a continous trip up to the end of Plaridel Bypass Road. I can say we are on the range of 80-110 km/h on average. After that the trip becomes slower due to the single lane and more vehicles on the national road 30-40km/h on average from San Rafael up to San Miguel. 

It took us 2 hours and 10 mins for a single trip. 1 hour and 50 mins on way back. 

I'm excited to cover longer distances soon.

Note: I've updated the post  How fuel efficient is 2017 Hyundai Tucson GL 2.0 manual based on this trip

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Fuel Consumption : Insane highway efficiency of Hyundai Tucson 2017 2.0 manual

Ok. So I'm back in Manila from the short out of town trip I did this weekend. I've previously published a post detailing the fuel consumption of the 2017 Hyundai Tucson 2.0 manual during a combination of heavy (stop and go traffic) and highway driving. This time, I wanted to know how efficient the car is if we have a theoretical pure highway cruising here in the Philippines. I decided to do the test went we are driving back to Manila from Los Banos, Laguna.

Route

The bulk of this leg of the trip is mostly highway. It is only when I turned right to Magallanes (EDSA) when I started to drive a bit slower. I started the test from Shell Turbina Highway (just near Calamba exit of South Luzon Expressway) filling up my tank with Shell Vpower and resetting all trip meter and fuel consumption meters on the dashboard. It ended at Shell Ayala cor Edsa.

amber is light traffic, green is highway speed

Without further ado, here it is..

Full Tank Method

The dashboard trip meter displays a whopping 18.0km/L (!!!) when I arrived at Shell Ayala ave. It even went up on an average of 19.7km/L (!!!) when I'm still at SLEX. The reading only went down when I get to EDSA which is we know, is definitely slower than on SLEX.

OK, so I'vé driven 45.2km and used up only 1.947L of fuel! That's just about P91.00 worth of gasoline when I topped up.

so the actual measurement using full tank methos is 45.2km / 1.974L = 22.88km/L. HOLY MACKEREL!!!!!

that is equivalent to

53.62 in US MPG
64.40 in MPG
4.38 in L/100km

What sorcery is this?! 

Pardon my reaction, it's just that coming from one hell of thirsty car (Ford Escape 2.0 AT)  - it surprises me that we can achieve this kind of efficiency on a similarly large displacement engine SUV (and I believe 3rd generation tucson is also heavier than 1st gen escape).

Just want to reiterate, the best I got from my escape is around 9.something km/L . 22.88 is more than double of that!

I can't wait to bring this nice piece of technology up in La Union soon. I'm excited.

How did I do it?

I just maintained the speed between 80-90 km/h. I noticed on the live FC meter that this range is the best speed for maximum efficiency.

You have to take note though that this scenario won't happen most of our drive time. This is like the best driving condition we can drive the car so watch out for another test that I will do. A more realistic out of town fuel efficiency test soon.

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Hyundai Tucson fuel consumption on mixed heavy traffic and highway driving (50/50)

I've decided to break in the car just before hitting 1000km. Break in as in driving highway speeds with varying RPMs between 800rpm to 3000rpm. That was the plan, which didn't really went so well. You see, the funny thing that I forgot to consider is that its a Saturday afternoon here in the Philippines. Saturday afternoon is synonymous to hellish traffic. To think that I'm also using a manual transmission so just imagine how tired my feet were after the trip.

The fuel consumption

The dashboard says I have a rating of 10.8 km/L . That's great in my standard considering that the best mileage I have achieved from my 2004 Ford Escape 2.0 AT is 9.8km/L pure highway driving.

The actual consumption using full tank method  is .....

7.98km/L

which is really not bad consider how traffic it was. Imagine we left at around 2:30pm and arrived at Los Banos, Laguna around 7pm.

See my next article to learn how I did on pure highway driving.

Traffic Situation

The traffic is heavy and in some cases, is on complete stand still.
Starting from Pasig all the way to Alabang (SLEX), we are crawling at 10-20kms/h. Beyond that, we were able to do highway speeds. Heavy traffic is encountered again from Bucal, Laguna up to Los Banos area.

Route

This is the route we follow. The trip started at Pasig City, Metro Manila and ended in Los Banos, Laguna

Highway speed is in green, heavy traffic in red

The post How fuel efficient is 2017 Hyundai Tucson GL 2.0 manual is updated based on the data I got from this test.

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How fuel efficient is 2017 Hyundai Tucson GL 2.0 manual

I recently consumed a full tank worth of gasoline for my 2017 Hyundai Tucson GL. It's the first tank that I've used up and I'm excited to compare how accurate the fuel consumption or fuel mileage meter that can be found on the Dashboard gauges of the car.

Here it goes 

For a full tank of gas, I managed to do

Full tank method

352.8kms (all city driving*) using 49.987L of fuel so that translates to about 7.05km/L of consumption rate.

Fuel Gauge method

According to the gauge, the car had a consumption rate of 7.5km/L

So it is 7.05km/L vs 7.5kmL . A variance of about 0.5km/L.

Conclusion?

I am not very sure if this mileage is already acceptable, but coming from a thirsty Ford Escape, my Hyundai Tucson is definitely better. To think that the engine is not yet fully broken in with only 500km on odometer, I expect this to improve after the 1k PMS and 5k PMS.

The data is not yet enough to conclude that the gauge always yield higher result and it can't be said yet also that the gauge is not reliable. I will be collecting data for as long as I could and see if we can see a pattern by showing a graph in the future. Book mark this post as I will be updating this regularly.

Data

Test #	Distance travelled (in km)	Fuel used (in L)	Ave Tire pressure (in psi)	Ave Fuel Consumption (Full Tank Method) km/L	Ave Fuel Consumption (Dashboard) km/L	Trip scenario	Gasoline brand used
1	352.8	49.98	37	7.06	7.5	City	Shell Vpower
2	342.6	49.286	35	6.95	7.5	City	Caltex Platinum
3	116.9	15.796	35	7.40	7.4	City	Seaoil Extreme 97
4	93.1	11.67	37	7.98	10.8	50% City / 50% Highway	Shell Vpower
5	45.2	1.97	37	22.88	19.7	Highway	Shell Vpower
6	133.5	22.69	36	5.88	6.8	City	Shell Vpower
7	172.2	12.963	37	13.28	13.2	5% City / 95% Highway	Shell Vpower

*Mostly  Quezon Ave - West ave traffic, with occasional BGC, Ortigas, and Pasig via C5 and Edsa on rush hours

Update : from  Fuel Consumption : Insane highway efficiency of Hyundai Tucson 2017 2.0 manual

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Maintain shine and luster of your car with Bigbert's Optiguard PaintProtection

My car was enrolled on Bigbert's paint protection program. Decided to avail one because the car is parked mostly under the sun (both office and home). I wanted to protect the paint from harmful UV rays, tree sap, bird droppings and pollution.

The program is basically a series of sessions where in the car is washed, rinse, dried and then applied with paint protection coating. Each application's shine and protection will last 3-4 months. 

The optiguard paint protection programm actually consist of

- paint protection for 1st - 4th month

- paint protection for 5th - 8th month

- paint protection for 9th - 12th month

- exterior detailing

Prices vary depending on your cars size. Will range from 6k and up. Compact suv is around 7k-8k.

To learn more, you may contact Bigberts Professional detailers (araneta branch) 

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