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Broke the big four-one to be exact :D 530.9mi, 12.934gal = 41.05mpg I could have kept that tank going into the 600s but I wanted to fill up since I'm driving for a business trip now, and it's easier to get my fuel paid for that way. (Not that they're paying for much! Broke 44mpg on my drive from CT into eastern RI this afternoon...back road detours are my friend.) So, yeah. Happy Accord driver over here!

Whooow yes Tim!
Congradulations you're doing better than most hybrid Accords!
Sure makes you feel great about your good car.
Sure is a great driver too! :D

Hi Tim:

___Congratulations as I knew you had it in you!

___Have you yet contemplated what 144% of EPA combined really means? There are few and I mean an insignificant % of pilots on the planet that have taken their automobiles to that level of FE performance! Wow! To encourage you further, keep those wonderful segments coming as Expert status is just a few tanks away! I bet you really love that Accord of yours now :D

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Thanks! What can I say, this stuff is addicting. The only reason that more people aren't scoring huge tanks way above EPA is that they don't realize they can. In a way, you could say that hypermiling is like a religion. You have to take it on faith that it's possible, then the numbers start to pick up and prove that you were right for believing.

Every so often I'll go back to a place like DriveAccord, where the forum members do care about FE enough to keep track and post their tanks in a big long thread. But then I read down and I see posts from people with very FE capable vehicles getting all happy about 29 or 30mpg on one isolated highway tank, and it takes effort to prevent forehead and desk from making contact. Are they hindered by their cars? No. Are they hindered by the lack of some magical power? Absolutely not. They just get what they expect.

I guess what keeps me going is the desire to change expectations. The most satisfaction comes from following the example that was set for me here, and in turn setting an example of my own so that I can show the numbers to other people and say "Hey, look, no magic tricks!" The more we do that, the more people will find their inner hypermiler. What could be better than 40mpg from a conventional family car becoming ho-hum?

Good Job!

The Accords are wonderful cars!

Ive given up on hypermiling ours as the wife ruins my efforts when she drives it. I did drive it this last weekend. We took it to tulsa to go out and eat and get in some casino action. It had been several weeks since I had drivien the car. It is such a nice car.

Stay after it. It will do 40 mpg and above easy on the hwy. Im still impressed with how the car coast. My Civic cant coast at the Accord level no matter what.

nice job, tim. i haven't had an accord since they were small in the 80s, but to get that with today's large one is great!

When my Insight was in the shop waiting for a new hybrid battery pack, I drove a compact KIA Rio automatic. It's one of the better FE cars out there, but it only got 35mpg.

Well done, brick!

Thanks! What can I say, this stuff is addicting. The only reason that more people aren't scoring huge tanks way above EPA is that they don't realize they can. In a way, you could say that hypermiling is like a religion. You have to take it on faith that it's possible, then the numbers start to pick up and prove that you were right for believing.


well put, and it feels good to get away from 30 doesn't it ;)

Congratulations, Tim! This is one of the reasons I gave up my CRV. I couldn't hypermile in that AWD for anything. 40+!!! That's amazing!