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Today I had tried a different tact while driving. After putting the complete grill covers on over the weekend and road testing, I found the only improvement was the car warmed up quicker and stayed warm. It made ZERO impact in MPG. So this morning I thought, what if I take the recharge load off the engine, so I got the battery up to 75% charge, since its 55MPH right out of my driveway for at least 20 miles, I refrained from using any EV. Once it got to 75% I started to see the instant MPG climb up to 30 then 35 and finally over 40, at which point the pack was around 80% charge and no longer being charged by the ICE. When I was able to keep the speedup over 60 and stay out of EV, I was able to keep the MPG over 40. Unfortunately traffic held me back and I wound up using EV thought I tried not to. End results was a respectable 38 MPG. My trip home however, I was able to drive at 60+ MPH keeping it 100% ICE and saw spikes over 50 MPG for the first time ever at that speed. End results, 44 MPG on the dash, 41.1 on the Scanguage. This is how I expected the car to react when I first got it. So what does this all mean? Battery pack has too high of a resistance so it take more energy to recharge? Makes sense, if you ever ran a gas generator and put a load on it, you know it takes more fuel to keep it running. Could it be a fault in the charging circuit? In any case I sent this info to my dealers service manager to see if this can help. I doubt the grill covers would help this much, especially considering it made no difference when driven the P&G way. I posted pics under the happy MPG thread.