Of the CR-V's worse-than-expected fuel economy, former staffer Eric Tingwall wrote, "I suspect that the aero and weight of the CR-V combined with Michigan highway speeds push Honda's strange direct-drive hybrid powertrain beyond its most efficient operating range.
Over the course of the CR-V's stay, we averaged 30 mpg, well shy of the EPA's combined estimate of 38 mpg. The stop-and-go traffic and lower speeds are the sweet spot of efficiency for this hybrid, it seems. However, when tooling around L.A., the CR-V got a nice 32 mpg. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the CR-V returned its worst mileage in the states where we spent a lot of time at higher speeds, like Oklahoma and New Mexico. On our final road trip to California, we saw an average fuel-consumption range between 20 mpg and 32 mpg. There were occasional battles to see who could get the most miles per gallon out of their tank (42 mpg was the record, with several 37 mpg tanks). We were curious to see what extended mileage would reveal about the hybrid system's efficiency. The stopping improvement was expected, because when all-season tires wear down, the tread blocks get stiffer, often resulting in better braking numbers. The most notable change came in the braking test, with our initial 70-to-0 mph result of 170 feet improving to 163 feet. The CR-V's quarter-mile time likewise improved by 0.1 second, from 16.1 seconds to 16.0.
The miles certainly didn't hurt the results, with the 60-mph dash improving from 7.5 seconds when the Honda was new to 7.4 seconds in our final test. Every CR-V Hybrid Has a Fart Joke in its VINĪs with all our long-term cars, we ran initial and final instrumented tests to see how the CR-V's performance held up over 40,000 miles.Next-Gen Honda CR-V Shows Off Clean Design.The regenerative-braking setting doesn't carry over to the next ignition cycle. Associate news editor Caleb Miller noted, "The only thing I wish I could change is the ability to have the most aggressive regen on all the time. And the Hybrid's regenerative braking, which is adjustable in four increments via steering-wheel paddles, was a source of contention. Also drawing ire was the CR-V's fraught relationship with Apple CarPlay, which often refused to boot up unless the car was restarted or the whole entertainment system was reset.
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As in the Accord Hybrid, this CR-V's engine usually functions as a generator for its two electric motors, meaning that revs don't always directly correspond to forward progress, which can be disconcerting. The most common complaint concerned the sound quality of the Atkinson-cycle 2.0-liter inline-four. We've noted before that the CR-V doesn't exactly generate a weighty tome of logbook observations, but there were some shared themes. Though this car has been described around the office as "perfectly fine," "good enough," and even "forgettable," it still proved to be a solid addition to our long-term fleet. As in our earlier updates on the CR-V, we still can't find much to complain about, other than its tendency to elicit a general feeling of ennui.
We thought that would be an appropriate place to capture its final glamour shots before we sent it back to the Honda Motor Company. Our long-term CR-V Hybrid surpassed the 40,000-mile mark during a cross-country road trip to Los Angeles.
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