C350e 2834 miles on the clock now

[JonnyBoy76]

Hi
Has anyone else got any fuel updates on the C350e
Full tank fill up approx £53 and 400 miles... anyone seen anything different?
I am about to order but have some nervousness about not covering the fuel on 14p per mile..

Any help appreciated..
Thanks
Jonny

[Ruxpin]

JonnyBoy76 said:

Hi
Has anyone else got any fuel updates on the C350e
Full tank fill up approx £53 and 400 miles... anyone seen anything different?
I am about to order but have some nervousness about not covering the fuel on 14p per mile..

Any help appreciated..
Thanks
Jonny

Economy on them is heavily weighted to journey profile, much more so than driving style.

We have 3x C350e at work. I average 55mpg (over last 11k), the other 2 average 44mpg (over last 16k) and c36mpg (I don't have actual data for this car but did sit in it a few weeks ago and noted significantly worse economy showing on the dash).

The car doing 55mpg needed new tyres at 27k, the car doing 44mpg needed tyres at 40k.

In my car best full tank is 700miles and 44.29ltr (say £50) = 71.85mpg
Worst was 340miles and 42.54ltr = 36.33mpg but i did have a roof box on and did motorway mileage with no charging.

Generally I get around 450-500 milers per £50 (I charge at home and work)

[JonnyBoy76]

Hiya, thank you for your response...
So looking at that, if driven fairly sensibly with a mix of motorway and slower journey around towns, you would be covered with the repayment of 14 pence per mile...

I had the BMW 530e recently for demo and it only just made the 14p per mile, £30 of fuel did 216 miles, although this was not using the available electricity as it arrived flat and I didn't charge it..so I could raise that a bit.

Losing my company fuel card for choosing a plug-in has me concerned that I will be paying for fuel for my business miles as they allow me to claim back 14ppm only. But it seems like I can achieve this.. which is the reason for me joking this forum to gain some opinions.

Many thanks

[robemcdonald]

JonnyBoy76 said:

Hiya, thank you for your response...
So looking at that, if driven fairly sensibly with a mix of motorway and slower journey around towns, you would be covered with the repayment of 14 pence per mile...

I had the BMW 530e recently for demo and it only just made the 14p per mile, £30 of fuel did 216 miles, although this was not using the available electricity as it arrived flat and I didn't charge it..so I could raise that a bit.

Losing my company fuel card for choosing a plug-in has me concerned that I will be paying for fuel for my business miles as they allow me to claim back 14ppm only. But it seems like I can achieve this.. which is the reason for me joking this forum to gain some opinions.

Many thanks

You also need to consider BIK tax. Once you lose the fuel card as well you will be quids in.

[JonnyBoy76]

That's also true... I should see a benefit from not having the card that I had forgotten about.
Seems I will be ok...
The 530e has some really nice features..I had the M sport version. I like the screen display, the digital dials..also the head up display and the gesture controls.. but the merc seems a bit more sporty..
both amazing cars but I think the merc just pips it for me... so will place my order soon.
Almost £10k more then the C350e, so 9% of £51 over 9% of £43.. almost £1k per year on P11D tax.
That's why the merc is being ordered...
thank you for your time to reply

[s111dpc]

My experience is much like Ruxpin's above.

I've had mine for 18 moths and have covered 28k miles. I would say I've averaged about 47-50mpg over that time. I recently did a 380 mile round trip with no charging at a fairly brisk pace on A roads and Motorways and got 39mpg, but when doing my normal 60 mile round trip I get high 40's and soon as I do any pottering around near home I'm in the 70's.

So in summary the mpg is really journey dependant, but when I weigh up the experience of the car and the bik savings I'm struggling to know what I'd change it for.

[Merc 1]

Can anyone assist......I have recently got a C350e and when fully charged from home it shows that I have 13 miles of charge, in less then 2 miles nearly all my electric charge has gone and that’s traveling at less then 30 mph.
I’ve taken it in today and they say this is normal? ....

[s111dpc]

That does sound a bit low. Like you I’m starting with 13 mile range and if I does up use the ICE at all then I’ll probably get 8 miles before the charge is all gone, however it is very dependant on temperature, what electrics you’ve got running (heated seats etc) and type of road, but even so 2 miles doesn’t so7nd right.

[Chris-S]

I think the best way to get a handle on what’s going on would be to measure how much energy you put into the battery to charge it. You can get a plug-in energy monitor for about £10. Read battery level in the car before you start charging, charge through the energy monitor until the car completed the process, read the energy meter. Ours typically has around 20% capacity when we run it in Comfort/hybrid, so I’d expect to see it take at least 5.5kWh to charge to 100%. There’s a bit of guesswork as there’s no way to know how much energy it uses for the battery temperature management during charge, but if it uses much less than 5kWh to go from 20% to an indicated 100% (which won’t really be a full 100% charge) then I’d say you’ve got some evidence to put to MB.

Worst range we’ve seen so far was the other day, from 98%, only made 6 miles before ICE started cutting in. We did have demist, seat heater, cabin heater and A/C on and they really nail it, plus it was congested, so it sat using power for heating while going nowhere.

Such a shame it doesn’t have a bigger battery though.

HTH

[chippy17]

I have had mine since October and done approx £7k miles, on all types of road, with a general commute to office of 32 miles each way, cross country, my average is 43.4mpg which is roughly the same as my old V60 D4

however I have yet to manage more than 10 miles on electric, fully charged it has never gone over 14 miles (12 miles being the average) but 100 yards later I have already lost 2 miles! I think that is rubbish

does the cold weather make a difference to the battery?

[jonobigblind]

chippy17 said:

I have had mine since October and done approx £7k miles, on all types of road, with a general commute to office of 32 miles each way, cross country, my average is 43.4mpg which is roughly the same as my old V60 D4

however I have yet to manage more than 10 miles on electric, fully charged it has never gone over 14 miles (12 miles being the average) but 100 yards later I have already lost 2 miles! I think that is rubbish

does the cold weather make a difference to the battery?

Yeah, quite a difference. Cold battery and cold weather is one of the biggest killers of range. Pre-conditioning with the car still plugged in will help as will the increasing ambient temperatures in the spring.

Bet your old D4 couldn't do 0-60 in less than 6 seconds though