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Experiencing Poor MPG with My New Honda Civic Hybrid – Seeking Advice

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Drove my 2025 civic hybrid on I-80 back from the dealership in El Paso and had to stop for gas every 300 mi or so. Very unnerving to get that poor fuel mileage with a 10 gal tank. We got approx 33mpg :( hoping to get better here in town but not looking much better, 36mpg or so. As the Dude said "bummer man"
are these MPG numbers you've calculated, or what you see on the infotainment screen? If they're from the infotainment screen, take a picture of how it looks now showing the poor mpg and miles on the trip counter, and then do another one in a week showing the change of miles and the mpg, would be interesting to see numbers so low.


i'm getting 50 with regular driving and low 40s highway (80% stop and go commute 20% "spirited" driving)
 
MPG update as it the temps have started dropping in CT.
2,837 total miles
lifetime mpg: 45.88
last fuel tank mpg: 41.43
lowest fuel tank mpg: 41.43
highest fuel tank mpg: 48.14 in middle of October (first time I personally filled up the tank, and it was unseasonably warm)
mean fuel tank mpg: 46.69

The US EPA only looks at about 200-250 cars a year.... I'm starting to wonder if they tested this car, or if the numbers are just estimates based on hondas own internal math.
 
If people are simply posting the current average since last fill-up or reset I would say you need to use the Trip B average and don't reset it. My Trip A meter auto-resets at each fill-up and I can make it home from the station in EV mode so it's gong to read 199.9 mpg but if I put it in Sport mode and rip around the block twice it will instantly drop into the 30's. By the time the tank is ready to refill it will have settled into a more accurate assessment but can still vary from tank to tank depending on the type of driving done. You can also quickly look at the Trip total, fill up and do a manual calculation. I've found those to be pretty close to the computer's estimates.

My Trip B average is currently at 48.8 with 6240 miles total.
Agreed. in my opinion it should either be your current total mpg lifetime, or your most recent fill up. So trip A reset when you fill up, next time you go get gas, look at the mpg of trip A, thats your mpg from the last tank

i'll start paying closer attention to what the car reports vs the actual calculate mpg is, but I think its been pretty accurate so far


I think you and I have pretty similar lifetime mpg despite you having double my my miles. you're 3mpg over me, but if I recall correctly you haven't gotten cold weather yet? so maybe temp change has been the biggest factor thus far