Real time fuel efficiency of the Toyota Innova Hycross Hybrid

I've never gotten to see the hybrid magic on the mileage until today.

BHPian pratlegacy recently shared this with other enthusiasts:

Fuel efficiency update after 4 months:

Having the VX hybrid and being a slightly more passionate (or as per my family, aggressive) driver than most folks, I've never gotten to see the hybrid magic on the mileage until today.

Disclaimer: I've been driving manual cars that give me 10-15kmpl all my life and when this automatic hybrid gave me around the same I was satisfied and remarked that's great for a 2L engine. I would even exclaim and point out to everyone whenever the odo showed 17kmpl, and I thought that was the magic of the hybrid.

I'd seen folks claim higher numbers, beyond 20, but always chalked that upto fantasy or ARAI or maybe they were driving at below 10kmph. Infact I had faced the opposite, on some spirited highway runs and ghat sections I'd seen single digit mileage figures that make hummers proud.

That perception changed today, when I took it out on a stroll in the city, and I was lost in the radio for ~10km and was only subconsciously driving, lightly feathering the pedal in bangalore traffic. It wasn't slow by any means, did hit the occasional 50, but remained in 30-40 kmph range throughout with the occasional traffic stop. But the mileage number that I saw was astounding to the very least, so had to take the below snap!

Conclusion:

Just like any car, this car can very well give sub 5kmpl mileages when driving spiritedly so don't expect any magic there but it's upper limit when driven sedately is much much higher than most cars.

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