The blog describes our trips and experiences towing a Goldstream Crown camper around with our Mitsubishi Outlander Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV).

Friday, March 24, 2017

Long Weekend - Short trip

On the long weekend in Victoria, we took the van to Seymour - about 110km north of home.
The trip was uneventful, with the PHEV just able to maintain charge while we traveled about 100km/h.

The Goulburn River Caravan Park at Seymour.


We had a meeting in Shepparton - about 80km further on so left the van at Seymour and drove up and back to Shepparton the following day.
Towing economy was 12.1 l/100km and non-towing was 6.1 l/100km - at least for the trip up to Shepparton. The trip back was 10.2 l/100km.
Everyone but us cleared out early Monday morning. We stuck around until about midday.









I parked the PHEV in as close to a tree as possible so kids couldn't squeeze between the vehicle and the tree and bend the charge flap (known problem). It also helped to hide the charge cable so we avoided any issues...

I have bought a new OBD2 dongle which works fine but didn't get a chance to monitor anything yet.
Filled at Seymour. ODO 13961. 28.45 L.
Caravan distance: 240km.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Battery Condition - October 2016

This is a retrospective post but I'll leave the post date correct.

Using EvBatMon for the PHEV and Android and a cheap eBay OBD2 dongle, I grabbed this snapshot of the PHEV's battery condition a day or two after we picked it up on 11th October 2016.

Shortly after I grabbed this pic the dongle died - I wasn't too surprised.
I have a more expensive one on the way.
I was pretty happy with the 92.63% battery condition estimate as I was expecting around 93%.