2014 Infiniti QX60 Hybrid: Quick Drive - The Car Connection
Heavy, family sized three-row crossover vehicles like the 2014 Infiniti QX60 probably don’t come to mind as particularly fuel-efficient picks—even when they have the Hybrid badge. But considering the very reason for being for hybrids—to recapture some of the energy in braking and coasting, and deliver it back when accelerating—the nearly 4,500-pound QX60 is a type of vehicle that arguably has a lot to gain from hybrid... And if the QX60 Hybrid’s EPA fuel economy ratings of 25 mpg city, 28 highway (26 mpg Combined) are any indication, it could save you a lot of gas money over the long run. Can the new hybrid system in the QX60 Hybrid—with its thin, twin-clutched 15-kilowatt electric motor system and compact lithium-ion battery pack—paired with a supercharged 2. 5-liter four-cylinder engine and continuously variable automatic... We have to admit, we were a little pessimistic going in. Green Car Reports editor and colleague John Voelcker got an embarrassingly low 19. 5 mpg in a mileage-minded test of the closely related Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid this past winter. Over nearly 80 miles of driving in a few short trips, and some suburban-style driving on boulevards and traffic-clogged freeways, the trip-computer average had settled to nearly 22 mpg. But for the remaining 320 miles—most of it on two-lane rural highways—by the time we’d headed up to around 4,000 feet in elevation and back down near sea level, our average had settled to around 26 mpg. Source: www.thecarconnection.com
