I have a 2013 Accent GLS and, like my son's old Elentra GT, this has a running average MPG calculation. It definitely has some correlation to reality since I can influence it one way or the other if I either am heavy on the gas or try to speed up down hills and slow down up hills - accelerating mildly.
I was wondering how accurate it tends to be over a few hundred miles. If I am very careful and do more steady state driving with not a lot of traffic and only some stop and go I can coax it to over 40 MPG. Careful driving in town (not huge city) with some traffic drops it down to 36 MPG. That includes fairly slow acceleration. My wife says if she had known it was so easy to get me to drive gently/slow down she would have found a car with that ages ago.
Funny thing is that in ECO mode my mileage drops - probably because my light-footed driving is conflicting with the fuel saving algorithms. During test drives the ECO mode seemed to cut down on my wife's ability to accelerate hard, etc. It shifted earlier, etc.
KW
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