Here is height profile of the road I must use, scale is about 30km from 0 to end, that is just one way, so it is twice of that to make a shopping trip:
I know of BSFC maps, but those are mostly useful in acceleration and avoiding pitfalls of some engines, of course there is none for b14.3e.
Generally driving up to a hill requires highest gear and lowest rpm that car is still going up to a hill for lowest fuel consumption, for acceleration one wants typically max torque rpm with around 70-80% of that max torque in use controlled by throttle pedal.
With vario there is no control over gears, just throttle, so keep throttle as it was allow speed to decrease or add throttle in hope to maintain speed so one would clear hill faster and with less added fuel consumption over 1st option?
French crap goes under 5l/100km on that route, vario might not, but trying to figure out best method is something that I would like to try
I guess vario system is not allowing putting neutral on downhill and D at end of downhill, one must be stopped to change gears?
