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> I have only had my HI about a month.
It feels as if I couldn't learn much more
about getting the highest numbers regularly.
Does one get to a place where you are
MINDMelt with the car, and just can't
get better at driving for MPG?
How long?

What are your numbers? I think you can always do better, but it gets pretty hard for me to get much more then 110MPG without P&G and or going VERY slow. Keep working at it. You never stop learning....Louis

I've been at it for two years now and am still learning and getting better mpg. It helps a lot to have people around who are doing better than I am so I know it's possible. Thanks guys, you know who you are!!!!

you can always do better. you find you can coast maybe a little bit longer, shut your car off a little bit sooner, possibly find better parking spots. Find better routes, find a better pulse and glide sector, find a more efficient point of acceleration. Drive less.

Hi Xzizx--

I drove an Insight (5 speed) for the first time ever the day of the WFEC. Drove it back from a McDonalds and improved the RT mileage from 92 to 117-something even after having to give Wayne the horn for going too damned slow :o and then the only further experience was driving them up Larry's driveway and then getting 157 MPG on the WFEC course later that day? I know there was a lot of room for improvement and could have easily gotten far higher if I'd only timed the glide better, or picked a better pulse range, and so on? I'm a bit leery of the Cvt since the control is taken entirely out of your hands but if it drives anything like a Prius you should be able to put up some really amazing numbers with just a little practice?

I am curious though what sort of numbers do you get now?

Thanks for the good responses. My best so far is 86 MPG
and that over only a mile and a half. I see that I can get
over a hundred, say leaving the Walmart with one touch
of fuel to get it moving, and rolling all the way home
(save something making me stop). So for real honest
MPG, I believe practice is the ticket. However I do like the
option to just not drive!
I have put up 76 mpg over ten+ miles, to give me hope
of not being "saddled" with it being a CVT.
Again, I think I am doing this "pulse" driving, if that
means pressing the gas pedal in "pulses" and not
holding it in one place. That definitely raises the bar graph.
I like to glide out of gear, but find that the bar graph
stays pegged at 150 even if the car is in gear, as long
as my foot is off the pedal. But, i noticed that the graph
stays down if I am coasting at a slow speed. I don't get
that, the engine is idling, why would the speed the car
is rolling freely at affect the MPG?
ALSO, I hear this often; Remarks to the effect that
there is a belief that one car may be somehow "gifted"
to get better MPG, while another "doomed" to struggle.
Like if it was owned by a consciencous hypermiler
it will "carry" better MPG on to the next driver (to some degee)
Maybe the cars can get stuck in a rut of some kind
from an owner that doesn't pay any attention to how
they drive. But again, this all seems superstitous at best.
Specibo