I Drove The Corolla Altis Hybrid For Vi Hours Inwards Traffic Then Yous Won't Accept To (Hopefully)

Pardon the lack of updates lately. Coming from a string of trips, I flora myself alongside a pretty bad representative of the flu. Yup, I convey the whole nine yards—fever, mutual depression temperature sweats, achy joints—it’s come upward to a betoken that it’s move tardily to string together a few sentences that brand feel earlier the Nyquil kicks in.

But for the sake of you, my dearest readers, as well as for my ain curiosity equally well, I decided to drag this deplorable excuse for a sack of flesh to stimulate the all-new Toyota Corolla Altis Hybrid (full review soon) from Manila to Tagaytay as well as dorsum at the superlative of traffic simply to come across what form of fuel consumption I tin get.

The conception is fairly simple: stimulate out at nine AM (when all the trucks are also out) from Marikina to Tagaytay via C-5 as well as the the world degree of SLEX. The instruct out betoken is via Greenfield City as well as upward via the Santa Rosa-Tagaytay Road. Once I laissez passer the Tagaytay Highlands for tiffin as well as a photograph op, it’ll live a trip downwards starting five PM through Silang as well as SLEX in 1 lawsuit more, crawling through the entire length of the horrible structure site as well as out to C-5 as well as downwards Marcos Highway dorsum to Marikina via Gil Fernando Avenue.

The entire circular trip took unopen to vi hours to accomplish (rest stops non included)—a feat that I survived considering I had the stamina of pre-super solider serum Captain America at this point. Oh, as well as yes, I was basically beingness sustained yesteryear a steady diet of Berocca as well as Biogesic.

Having driven a Prius on occasion, I flora it surprising that the Corolla Altis Hybrid engages its “EV Mode” quite aggressively. Yes, you lot tin plough off the characteristic (why would you lot though), but for equally long equally there’s plenty accuse inwards the traction battery (40 pct or more), it’ll elbow grease to force itself through metropolis streets, highways, zigzag roads, as well as fifty-fifty parking ramps using electrical means first. Only if to a greater extent than oomph is required volition it summon the 1.8-liter Atkinson wheel engine.

What is uncannily like to the Prius though are 3 things: the artificial experience of the brakes (due to their regenerative function), the constant as well as rather annoying vibration inwards the throttle pedal whenever the internal combustion engine kicks in, as well as the heft to a greater extent than or less the car’s middle expanse (the battery’s placement).

I’ll utter to a greater extent than almost how the Corolla Altis Hybrid drives soon, but let’s instruct to the theme of fuel economy—after all, this is the argue why I went out inwards the start place, right?  Does Toyota’s gasoline-electric hybrid piece of employment on Philippine roads? Hell, yeah. How good? The lastly mixed city/highway figure stands at an insane 20.833 km/L. But you lot know what’s fifty-fifty crazier? The consistency. Left inwards metropolis confines, the figure is 21.73 km/L as well as since I got the batteries fully charged heading downwards Tagaytay, fifty-fifty through the heavy structure at SLEX as well as rush hr traffic on C5, it registered 26.31 km/L. Mind boggling, I nation you.

At to the lowest degree it’s settled then: the Corolla Altis Hybrid does alive upward to its fuel economic scheme hype. Now, if you lot excuse me, I notwithstanding can’t experience my correct butt cheek from yesterday’s arduous stimulate as well as the Nyquil’s kicking inwards again.