Recent advances in the design of Cu-sheathed in situ MgB2 wires have shown promising results and made this kind of wire more competitive in terms of price to performance ratio in comparison to conductors with diffusion barriers made with metals inert to reaction with Mg. Recently reported additions of copper powder to the core of in situ Cu-sheathed MgB2 wires have shown that these additions can accelerate the formation of MgB2, increasing its volume fraction and greatly decreasing the amount of Mg-Cu intermetallic phases present in the core after heat treatment. In this paper additional experimental results for toluene doping are reported and compared to wires with and without copper additions. All three wires were investigated by SEM, XRD and transport critical current measurements Jc ( B ) at 4.2 K. The results showed that copper additions were effective in the whole measured field region, whereas toluene doping improved performance in the high field region.