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Just curious, since I've been able to disable ERDTT on my Gen1 in the last week I've saved what I'd estimate to be in the range or 15-20L of gas in this one week alone given our extreme cold snap in the Ontario Canada area.
My driving pattern recently consists of a variety of reasonably short trips where ERDTT does mostly nothing except waste gas - some trips are so short that the coolant valve doesn't even open, so the gas is more o less wasted, and then I come home with tons of battery capacity left. On longer trips the grid heater does perfectly fine heating the cabin up and keeping windows clear.
It works just fine.
Recharge, repeat, sometimes 3-5 times a day. On average I'm probably going through 2 full charges a day spread out across multiple trips.
ERDTT is, in most of my drive situations, kinda useless to me, and serves little else except to burn gas that doesn't benefit me at all when I have a battery sitting beside me with a 50% or more state of charge remaining.
But, I got into a debate tonight with an older fellow on Facebook (who since had a hissy fit and threatened to block me) who's spouting off that my method is dumb. Using gas is normal, everyone needs to do it! Disabling ERDTT will harm your battery! ERDTT isn't inefficient at all!
All the logic in the world about why I don't NEED to burn gas in ERDTT mode, how inefficient the Volt's engine is at the lower coolant temps in ERDTT mode, and why it's a complete waste as often the coolant often never even heats up enough to have the coolant valve even open for some trips is completely lost on him.
He's running around telling people to "use gas!" more or less.
Anyhow, for those on the "Chevy Volt Owners" Facebook group, here's the thread in question. I think I've been tactful and factual in my responses despite his complete unwillingness to live outside his little box, and he's now stooped to calling me names, but whatever, I won't stoop back.
Find the "Check out this fuel economy. Worst yet" post and then read the comments under "Don't disconnect the ERDTT.... The car is designed for it."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/che...=1514935492605333¬if_t=group_comment_reply
Just wondering what the opinion is here, especially during this unprecedented cold snap where a huge number of Volt owners are experiencing ERDTT for the first time (some even in TX and FL!), and many others of us further north have been experiencing it for longer than ever before. For those of us who understand ERDTT better than this guy and have driving patterns that make disabling it a no brainer, why wouldn't you?
My driving pattern recently consists of a variety of reasonably short trips where ERDTT does mostly nothing except waste gas - some trips are so short that the coolant valve doesn't even open, so the gas is more o less wasted, and then I come home with tons of battery capacity left. On longer trips the grid heater does perfectly fine heating the cabin up and keeping windows clear.
It works just fine.
Recharge, repeat, sometimes 3-5 times a day. On average I'm probably going through 2 full charges a day spread out across multiple trips.
ERDTT is, in most of my drive situations, kinda useless to me, and serves little else except to burn gas that doesn't benefit me at all when I have a battery sitting beside me with a 50% or more state of charge remaining.
But, I got into a debate tonight with an older fellow on Facebook (who since had a hissy fit and threatened to block me) who's spouting off that my method is dumb. Using gas is normal, everyone needs to do it! Disabling ERDTT will harm your battery! ERDTT isn't inefficient at all!
All the logic in the world about why I don't NEED to burn gas in ERDTT mode, how inefficient the Volt's engine is at the lower coolant temps in ERDTT mode, and why it's a complete waste as often the coolant often never even heats up enough to have the coolant valve even open for some trips is completely lost on him.
He's running around telling people to "use gas!" more or less.
Anyhow, for those on the "Chevy Volt Owners" Facebook group, here's the thread in question. I think I've been tactful and factual in my responses despite his complete unwillingness to live outside his little box, and he's now stooped to calling me names, but whatever, I won't stoop back.
Find the "Check out this fuel economy. Worst yet" post and then read the comments under "Don't disconnect the ERDTT.... The car is designed for it."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/che...=1514935492605333¬if_t=group_comment_reply
Just wondering what the opinion is here, especially during this unprecedented cold snap where a huge number of Volt owners are experiencing ERDTT for the first time (some even in TX and FL!), and many others of us further north have been experiencing it for longer than ever before. For those of us who understand ERDTT better than this guy and have driving patterns that make disabling it a no brainer, why wouldn't you?