Hello! I just came back from a roughly 900 mile trip from Chicago round trip. I was in Eco Pro everywhere on the freeway and I was able to average 32.3 MPG on the way there and in grand total 30.4 MPG listed below. (Went down since I had a little fun in sport plus while in Chicago) I racked up a total of 11.6 miles coasting and 66.2 bonus miles. I used the Adaptive cruise control with lane keep assist the whole trip had it set to 78 mph. Pretty impressive considering it’s a V8 monster! I’m curious what everyone else has been getting in there cars too so lmk ur results if you have them!
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Hello! I just came back from a roughly 900 mile trip from Chicago round trip. I was in Eco Pro everywhere on the freeway and I was able to average 32.3 MPG on the way there and in grand total 30.4 MPG listed below. (Went down since I had a little fun in sport plus while in Chicago) I racked up a total of 11.6 miles coasting and 66.2 bonus miles. I used the Adaptive cruise control with lane keep assist the whole trip had it set to 78 mph. Pretty impressive considering it’s a V8 monster! I’m curious what everyone else has been getting in there cars too so lmk ur results if you have them!
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That's pretty good.
How confident are you in the accuracy of your displayed MPG? Five percent either way is common. It can be adjusted. There's a "correction factor" K which scales the displayed MPG. It is set at 1000 for the factory default. But, it can be adjusted anywhere from 750 to 1250. If you're the second owner, somebody could have fiddled with the K factor.
How confident are you in the accuracy of your displayed MPG? Five percent either way is common. It can be adjusted. There's a "correction factor" K which scales the displayed MPG. It is set at 1000 for the factory default. But, it can be adjusted anywhere from 750 to 1250. If you're the second owner, somebody could have fiddled with the K factor.
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I get 45 uk mpg in mostly ecopro 530I ( called 520I in uk) .this is quite amazing for the size and weight of car.
Absolutely outstanding. Consider the fact that you have fantastic performance on tap at your call. I've never used it in my X5 M50i but have read that the responsiveness is greatly reduced in the "Eco" position. Fortunately I don't have to drive enough to really concern myself with gas mileage.
I get 26.6 city in my 540(AWD) on comfort mode with auto start/stop turned off. But, I fill up like once a month since my job is a 20-mile round trip from my house.
Next time I fill up, I'm gonna drive in eco-plus mode and see what kind of MPG I get
Next time I fill up, I'm gonna drive in eco-plus mode and see what kind of MPG I get
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You can turn off the air conditioning fiddling in EcoPro Individual. BMW air conditioning isn't that great to start with.
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Yep, I know that, but to me this defeats the purpose of ECO mode as the MPG goes way down when you do this. The difference between Comfort and ECO with A/C Normal for a long trip is probably 5mpg. I'll chip in the $25 bucks.
Totally agree on G30 AC.
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Highway driving doesn't benefit much from EcoPro. You're already in 8th gear, with the torque converter locked. At steady speeds, there no coasting on neutral.
Floriduh's a steaming swamp. We got Frau Putzer's X3 in March. I immedately turned that EcoPro AC fiddling off in EcoPro Individual.
Highway speeds also keeps the outside surfaces of the vehicle at the ambient temperature, reducing the load on the AC. At low speeds, solar radiation raises the surface temperature to well above the ambient temperature, and that heat gets conducted to the passenger compartment.
In the pre-LCI G30 free wheel coasting only occurs in ECO Pro. In the LCI this also occurs in Comfort.
This does greatly reduce fuel consumption as the engine is disconnected from the wheels…
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That's too bad, I think the only time I could bare to use ECO Pro would be on the highway. I could not deal with the lack of throttle puttering around town.
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All models or just the "e" models? If all models, how would I know when I am coasting? Is that when the dial on the ECO display goes to the battery charge thing?
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The battery charge thing only happens when the transmission is engaged. It's harvesting some of our unwanted kinetic energy to charge the battery... sort of a mini-hybrid.
When I'm driving the X3, I'm always using EcoPro... "Garage door closed, EcoPro activated, ASS deactivated." When I need to brake, due to either bad luck or bad planning, I manually downshift with the "-" paddle on the steering wheel. That reengages the transmission. It also pisses off Billy Bob behind me because I'm slowing down but he doesn't see brake lights. The transmission will downshift on it's own... to M2 or M1 as I'm slowly coming to a stop. The transmission returns to "D" after I stop.
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Yeah, the car's sluggish in EcoPro. That's why BMW doesn't have EcoPro as the default setting when you start up the car. If they did, they could use EcoPro for the EPA emissions and fuel economy tests. But, then potential customers test driving BMW's would say "This car's a pig. Let's go look at an Audi."
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I guess it also wears out the brakes faster... sort of a jobs program for BMW tech's and service writers. I manually downshift when necessary when I'm EcoPro-ing in Frau Putzer's automatic-transmission X3 and need I to stop sooner than if I was just coasting.
I met friends for lunch today... 24 miles at 26.2 MPG in my manual-transmission 535i. When I'm driving, I'm usually playing my MPG outcome manipulation game. That's why I bought a 535i instead of an M5. I used to hit Advanced M School regularly to get that out of my system.
I fell off the wagon, so to speak, yesterday. I "had to" drag race a jacked-up F-150. There's an intersection on the way to most of my lunch destinations where there's two lanes turning left. A few hundred feet beyond the left turn there's an off-ramp. If somebody makes the left turn but doesn't take the off-ramp, it's because they're lost. So almost everybody in two lanes has to merge into one lane. The F-150 was hogging into my lane, short-cutting the turn to get ahead of me. I lost a few MPG's, but it was worth it.
This is for all models. On the e models the EV motor is used for coasting, but for ICE it free wheels.
I am not sure I follow. If your engine is connected to the drivetrain it will naturally engine brake and slowdown the vehicle. Lower gears increases this effect. That’s the bonus that ECO Pro offers. It will disconnect the engine to minimize the energy needed to counter act this and maintain a set speed. That’s sort of the point. Unless I’m missing something.
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I think a little bimmercoding would help with your routine. You can code start up with eco pro or eco pro individual and ass off.
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That would annoy Frau Putzer. Her unhappiness is highly contagious.
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True, but sometimes you gotta stop before you'd come to a stop just by coasting.
I had a 330e loaner a while back. It wasn't charging well. That because I was not doing much braking. I had to retrain myself to brake, but doing so early and gently (using regeneration instead of the brakes).
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