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i work for a company of about 100 employees. the owner, who is 65 and could have retired ages ago, still comes to work. he's very much an active environmentalist, and he and i get along well. many people in the company are intimidated by him, but i just talk to him like i would anyone else. we also share very similar political views.

he has been really impressed since i got my HCH last fall, always asking about it, how's the MPG, etc. he buys a new vehicle every two years, and in the 9 years i have been there, i think he's always gotten an explorer. well.......this year he just got a new toyota highlander hybrid! and, in addition....he bought his wife an accord hybrid. she has a heavy foot, but he thinks having the display is helping her improve her driving skills and her mileage.


i had another one of those perfect drives on the way home after i filled up. i actually saw my screen display at 104.3! i couldn't maintain it all the way home, but for a 3rd of the short drive, i was over 100. the shot below shows the readout in the garage when i got home. :)

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/84mpg.jpg

One of us has got to lend a 5-speed Insight to you sometime!

Wow. Did you seriously hit that 84mpg over less than 9 miles?!? Even on a warm engine that's an impressive feat! You realize that's literally double the mileage I get :D.

Your boss sounds like a good guy. Too bad he didn't go for something with a little more FE potential, but a very good choice over the Explorer. And I think he's got the right idea about his wife. My approach with the [formerly?] lead-footed girlfriend has been to teach her a few of the basics, show her where the a- and i-FCD is located, and let her keep tabs on herself. That feedback alone has nudged her over the line into hypermiler territory most of the time.

Keep up the great work!

On the HybridFest mpg challenge, my Insight only got 82.9mpg. :o

One of us has got to lend a 5-speed Insight to you sometime!


well, come on up-chuck (:D ) and bring yours. i would love to see what it can really do.

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Wow. Did you seriously hit that 84mpg over less than 9 miles?!? Even on a warm engine that's an impressive feat! You realize that's literally double the mileage I get :D.


Keep up the great work!

yup. if i didn't have a short, steep hill where i turn off to my road, i think i could have held the 100+ for the whole thing, but so new into the tank, that hill really robs the mpg. maybe i should just go straight the next time that happens and see how far i get.

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Nicely done!

Hi Laurie:

___Now you are coming close to her maximum and you would not believe how proud I am of you! I wish you knew way back when what you know today as you would embarrass far more Insight’ers then you could ever imagine! It will not be but a 2 or 3 days and the 100 mpg club will be in your back pocket. Once there, it gets a lot easier to maintain too ;)

___With the right route, there is no reason an HCH-I/II pilot could not have the highest lmpg of all hybrids including all Insights given the techniques we have available to us today. You travel distance is a bit long for that but I can see 80 + becoming far more normal now then what you have ever seen in the past. Just go look back at what Tom’s HCH-I has achieved when pushed and you will be there in no time flat.

___Your results will give a lot more impetus to both Lakedude and Hot Georgia to take their own HCH’s to where they are capable of given you are just the fourth or fifth person I know of to see 100 + from an HCH-I/II. I look forward to your future results :D

___Good Luck and don’t stop pushing.

___Wayne

thanks, wayne. i wish i had a better idea of how to sustain it. i have done nothing to the car to alter it, and mostly i just drive slower than the average driver.

the only thing that will slow me down is the fact that winter is coming soon...we already have some leaves turning. :(

i know i can maintain 50 or better in the winter, but i am getting spoiled with the near 60 averages.

i also will be having my second knee replaced in october, so i won't be doing a whole lot of driving for a few weeks after that......

yowzers congrats! really shows what hybrids are capable of.

gives me hope that i can one day get some sort of crazy number in the distance you just covered.