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It's a new week!

No driving for me today as my daughter is ill and I have to stay home to help watch her.

I had a good weekend. still going strong and getting closer to 500 miles now. Tank sitting at 482 miles. My trips to work and home are 14 miles a day, so i'm figuring to hit 500 going to work wed morning. not sure if i should see how far i can go or just take what i end up with.

It's a new week!

No driving for me today as my daughter is ill and I have to stay home to help watch her.

Praying Victoria gets better soon.

I guess Sean not driving is the only way I'm going to beat his numbers today.:p I had 52F and the wind was N@ 5 mph. The round trip to my wife's work and back was a mere 96.8 mpg over 20.7 miles.

59F Clear 5mph NW (headwind/crosswind)
33.03 mpg
26.89 miles

The house AC was already running this morning - 80F outside.

85.5 mpg to work, leaving the tank at 79.6 / 440 miles.
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Update: lunchtime shopping trip. Weather = HOT! (FIA started at 107)
70.9 / 4.9 there
91.0 / 4.9 back.

The tank is still at 79.6, now 450 miles.

Grr! Frustrating day to say the least. I had 52F this morning and we hit a high of 72F this afternoon. The wind NW@ 5-10 mph
96.8 20.7-to wife's work and back
98.2 8.9-to wife's work
90.9 11.6-back home
Average for today was 95.4 mpg.

home>work
- 24.2 / 13.3 miles (70F SE@8) (right before 3 hours of rain and thunder opened from the clouds)

work>home
- 23.2 / 13.2 miles (74F S@7)

daily avg = 23.7 / 26.5 miles

tank is just above 3/8 with 279.1 miles
~23.6 MPG and ETE is still at 519 miles

Man, that commute couldn't have been much worse. Bad traffic? Check. Driving rain with all road surfaces evenly covered by an oily slick? Check. Stop for a train at the bottom of a hill? Check. :p

What a drag.

64F, 6mph headwind from the SSE, raining:


96.8mpg for 22.8mi (Home to work)

The tank is down to 115.8mpg over 551.0mi with 20 bars on the fuel gauge.

Not too bad for today. The temperature was 52F and the wind is NE@ 5 mph. The daily average was easy enough to figure out since it was the same for both legs:p...102.4 mpg.
102.4 8.4
102.4 11.7

Larry, my low temperatures are higher than your highs right now. 77F this morning.

83.5 mpg home last night.
87.9 mpg this morning to work.

That brings the tank up to 79.9 / 475 miles. The highest mid-tank reading on my last tank was 79.0. ;)

Rain sure makes things hard in the Insight. :p

63F, 13mph tailwind from the SE, raining:


104.5mpg for 23.1mi (Work to home)

The tank is down to 115.3mpg over 574.2mi with 20 bars still on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 100.5mpg over 46.0mi

At least tomorrow is supposed to be sunny... but then it is back to the thunderstorms. :(

Oh so close now! 497.5 on the odometer right now as it sit in my driveway :D

Didn't start off too good this morning though. Only had 30 showing where usualy is 35-37 at that checkpooint :( I kept calm and didn't let it affect me and manaaged to pull a decent number coming into work.

Now coming home was fun. my boss told me it had started raining just as i was finishing up! i stood in dining room and watched and she asked if i was scared! :p I was actualy watching to see which was the cloud was moving. road wasn't too bad and actualy being wet helped me with ridge riding cauase i could see the low spots now! best part was once off long road leavinbg work and onto main road it was dry and sunny! that made me smile and i kept up my rountine and did pretty good


43.4- 8.4 to work

45.4- 6.4 miles home.

2.5 miles to go! :flag:

I'm gonna fuel up after work tommorrow but i'm gonna make sure i make 510 miles.

Great job, Mike!! :woot:

102.4 mpg.



100.5mpg

Hmmmmm Very interesting! :p:p

Hmmmmm Very interesting! :p:p
All is right with the world now; I had my afternoon run.:p

The temperature only hit 62F today and the wind was E@ 10-15 mph with gusts to 20+ and the final segment was with a moderate rain and wet roads.
102.4 20.1-to wife's work and back
100.3 11.8-to wife's work
78.9 11.2-back home
Average for today was 94.5 mpg.:ccry:

Hmmmmm Very interesting! :p:p

All is right with the world now; I had my afternoon run.:p

The temperature only hit 62F today and the wind was E@ 10-15 mph with gusts to 20+ and the final segment was with a moderate rain and wet roads.
102.4 20.1-to wife's work and back
100.3 11.8-to wife's work
78.9 11.2-back home
Average for today was 94.5 mpg.:ccry:

:o :o

:awaits his punishment: :p:p

home>work
- 24.8 / 13.4 miles (74F S@14) :Banane18:

work>home
- 22.0 / 13.2 miles (88F S21 Gusting to 30):eek:

daily avg = 23.4 / 26.6 miles

tank = just under 3/8 with 305.7 miles
steady at ~23.6 MPG and ETE 519 miles (the spread sheet says I have 9 days left of gas:eyebrow:)

I had to go pick up dinner for the family. It was about a half hour after my wife got home and I took her car.


53.0mpg for 1.1mi (Home to Noodles)
76.3mpg for 1.1mi (Noodles to home ;))


Day Total: 62.6mpg over 2.2mi :D

It wasn't my best trip in or my best tank average at this number of miles... but so far I'm not that far off of my record setting tank since I'm still showing a full fuel gauge.

61F, 8mph cross/headwind from the WSW, clear:


111.6mpg for 22.4mi (Home to work)

The tank is down a bit to 115.1mpg over 596.6mi with 20 bars on the fuel gauge.

:o :o

:awaits his punishment: :p:p

No punishment needed. Since I'm driving my Insight, I've had a bit of trouble getting over the learning curve. I suspect Sean and I may eventually be a bit more matched in numbers.;)

Not too bad of a start for today. The temperature is 68F and the wind is SW@ 5-15 mph. The daily average is 109.4 after 20.9 miles.
105.0 8.4
112.5 12.5

I look forward to that day, Larry! You're doing fine on that learning curve, by the way. :thumbs_up:

Trip home: :(
55.2 / 3.2 - work to pharmacy, in the thick of rush hour traffic
68.2 / 7.8 - pharmacy to home, on a sub-optimal route. 55 mph 2-lane with rough pavement and home-from-work traffic

This morning was better.
82.9 / 10.5 miles.

The tank is down from 79.9 to 79.6 and 497 miles.

Yesterday was the first day of using my sg in the venture. I averaged 30.2 to work, and 29.7 back home. I won't know how fully accurate that is until my second fill up, haven't done my first yet.

Ed

High winds, traffic, and the choice of a faster route didn't help the numbers on the way home. :(

67F, 18-25mph cross/headwind from the W, overcast:


110.9mpg for 22.5mi (Work to home)

The tank is now down to 114.9mpg over 619.2mi with 19 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 111.1mpg over 45.0mi

home> work
- 22.3 / 13.4 miles (69F SW@12 with heavy rain)

work>home
- 24.9 / 13.2 miles (82F E@5) :Banane18:

daily avg = 23.6 / 26.6 miles
tank is just above 2/8 with 332.3 miles
~23.6 MPG and ETE is still at 519 miles (with 7.9 days left)

We hit a high of 80F today and winds were W@ 5-10 mph with gusts to 20 mph.
105.0 8.4-to get coffee
112.5 12.5-on to wife's work and back home
69.7 1.5-to bank
109.9 13.8-bank to wife's work
103.8 11.8-back home
122.4 7.9-to daughter's voice lesson
98.9 9.6-back home
Average for today was 106.8 mpg over 65.5 miles.

Well i did it or should i say "Lil Silver" did it! 512 miles!! :woot: :bananajump:

Total for this tank was 512.2 miles- 11.4 gas used. almosy hit another goal of a 45 mpg tank too!;) Oh well plenty of time for that left summer just starting down here. ;)


512.2 miles- 11.4012 gas used 44.92 mpg! 2 new records:D

also was first time in a while that a full tank cost me over $30 :p

I'm making my difference!!

I'm going to start a thread in the hypermiling on vacation section to give more details. All in all, i am very happy with the numbers i saw on the SG and at the pump during this vacation.

From yesterday with the last trips from my vacation: 81F average temp and sunny with winds from the NE @ 4mph

- 48.1mpg for 23.1 miles from friend's place to base
- 47.0mpg for 20.5 miles from base back to friend's place

Left NC last night at 9pm to return back home. Average temp for the trip was 69F

- 48.4mpg for 147 miles from friend's place in NC to VA rest area
- 51.5mpg for 214 miles from VA rest area to MD rest area to sleep

Day total for yesterday: 47.9mpg

Got back on the road at about 9:45am this morning to finish the trip. The low for the trip was 59F and the high was 72F with scattered rain showers

- 45.5mpg for 32.2 miles from MD rest area to MD gas station

Tank fill up: 49.8mpg over 523.8 miles using 10.518 gallons

- 55.1mpg for 119 miles from MD gas station to NJ rest area for lunch
- 53.8mpg for 171 miles from NJ rest area to CT rest area (light rain and about 18 total miles of stop and go delays)
- 51.5mpg for 56.6 miles from CT rest area to home (heavier rain this trip)

Day total: 53.2mpg

The tank is currently at 53.8mpg over 347 miles with 6.6 gallons remaining.

Fantastic, Mike!! :woot: :D :flag:

Nice driving, Dan! Way to work it! :D:thumbs_up:

A bit better this morning, though the fuel gauge did one of its weird skips down 2 bars instead of just one (which often happens coming off of full and half way marks).

53F, no wind, clear:


114.6mpg for 22.5mi (Home to work)

The tank is steady at 114.9mpg over 641.7mi with 17 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Off to a decent start today. The temperature was 57F and the wind is NNE@ 5-10 mph. The daily average is at 105.8 mpg.
104.3 8.5
106.9 12.4

Driving dad's ford truck, nothing to report.

Went to McDonalds and saw Blue Honda Insight 1st gen. Noticed heavy object inside that car -- a sledgehammer?!?!! It's a NIIIIICE car!!! Wish I own it....

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76.6 home last night in a drizzle
81.3 this morning, fully raining. I said, @$#! it, I'm getting a good number anyway. And I did. :D

The tank is steady at 79.6 / 518 miles and still in the 3/4 tank range.

Hi, Scott -- same color as mine. :)

Nice work, Andrew!! I'm going to have the same situation when I leave work today. I guess it is supposed to start raining at 11... so I better go close the windows!! :eek:

425.8 mi, 12.2 gal for 34.9MPG.

Not great, but for mostly beep-and-creep in 80degree weather, not bad.

The Civic's tranny does not like FAS, or NICE-On, so will be going to DWL/DWB only.

Really? My Ody's tranny is fine with nice-on.

off work today and had a few errends to run. It's nice to drive with a warmed up car and that helped but doesn't realy show.

43.5- 5.9 to bank.

43.7 from bank to sams club. This could have been worse or better. warmed up car helped here. When I pulled in there was someone in there car with engine running and ac on, when i came out 15 minutes later they was still there. i could hear there cooling fan running trying to cool that poor lil engine.

43.5- 8.4 to conv store.

33.4 - 3.1 to home.


tank sitting at 42.9- 27 miles

I lucked out and didn't get any more than a few sprinkles on the way home but the roads were damp enough to really shorten my glides.

63F, 13-17mph cross/tailwind from the ESE, overcast:


117.5mpg for 22.8mi (Work to home)

The tank is back up to 115.1mpg over 664.6mi with 17 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 116.0mpg over 45.4mi

I still have a meeting at the Church to attend tonight...

Not too bad of a day for FE but still much room for improvement. The high reached 76F and the wind was NW@ 5 mph with gusts to 15 mph.
104.3 8.5-to get coffee
106.9 12.4-on to wife's work then home
109.2 11.1-to wife's work
105.5 12.2-back home
Average for today was 106.6 over 42.2 miles. The guess-gauge is now reading 1/2 and, the last I checked, it was at nearly 98.5 mpg.

home>work
- 23.9 / 13.4 miles (72F S@12)

work>home
- 23.0 / 13.1 miles (85F S@15 gusting to 22):eyebrow: Still don't like the headwind all the way home.

daily avg = 23.5 / 26.5 miles
tank is just under 2/8 with 358.8 miles
~23.6 MPG still and down a hair on the ETE to 518 miles not much of a cushion.:(

Another challenging Church RT...

66F down, 13mph headwind from the ESE, overcast,
64F back, 9mph crosswind from the ESE, overcast:


101.5mpg for 18.2mi (Home to Church)
107.8mpg for 18.2mi (Church to home)

The tank is now all the way down to 114.4mpg over 701.2mi with 17 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge. :(

Day Total: 110.6mpg over 81.9mi

Blah. At least I didn't get rained on much. Looks like tomorrow is going to give me plenty of the wet stuff, though. :p

Considering the driving conditions, the morning's numbers weren't all that bad.

62F, 7mph head/crosswind from the NE, hard rain:


103.1mpg for 22.6mi (Home to work)

The tank is now down to 113.9mpg over 723.9mi with 16 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

The trip home looks to be no better... but at least it is Friday!

Sounds like I have a good shot at a great FE day.;) I had 67F and the wind was SSE@ 5-10 mph. The daily average is at 107.4 mpg. I do have my weekly trip to the grocery store so it could be a nail-biter.
112.4 8.4
104.1 11.9

Nice going, Larry! :woot:

Jason, you're doing great! Mid-23's is better than 99.9999% of those trucks will ever see. :D

Home: :( I tried another route, which has failed for me in the past. It still fails. Too much high-speed aggressive traffic on a 2-lane.
73.8 mpg / 9.9 miles (0.134 gallons)

This morning: back to the usual, which is mostly 4+ lanes, or below 45 mph limit.
85.3 mpg / 10.7 miles (0.125 gallons)

See how the longer route uses LESS gas? :D

I had an unexpected errand to run. Gotta love relatively flat, deserted, 5+ mile non-stop stretches of road.:D The daily average is now up to 108.3 mpg. I should note that there were only 3 stops for the entire round trip (segments 3 & 4) and this was achieved with steady-state driving except for the approach to the stops. Now, if I could only do something about that annoying NOX purge thing.:p
112.4 8.4
104.1 11.9
102.6 10.8
116.3 11.0

Now that was a satisfying end to the week. :)

70F, 4mph tailwind from the SSW swinging around to the NW as a headwind, wet roads and some sprinkles:


121.0mpg for 23.1mi (Work to home)

The tank is now back up to 114.2mpg over 747.0mi with 16 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 111.3mpg over 45.8mi

not as bad day down here in the south :)

44.7- 8.4 miles to work. been using my longer route in morning and i'm liking the numbers i am getting with it.

45.1- 6.4 miles home. hot down here in the 'ole south!

tank sitting at 43.6- 42 miles. still sitting on full mark.

Have family coming next week to visit and i'lll be off for 5 days so no results after tuesday cause i'll be parking lil silver and will be a rider then :p

and on sat the 19 I'm going to Disney World! :D

As suspected, the grocery shopping was an mpg killer.:( I was able to hold onto 100+ but just barely. It got up to 84F today and the wind was S@ 5-10 mph.
112.4 8.4-to get coffee
104.1 11.9-on to wife's work then home
102.6 10.8-ran an errand
116.3 11.0-back home
114.2 9.1-to wife's work
77.5 7.7-to grocery store
91.4 12.5-back home via my mom's
Average for today was 101.3 over 71.4 miles. After segment 5, the tank was at 99.8 mpg with 11 of 20 bars on the guess-gauge after 500+ miles.

home>work
- 25.3 / 13.4 miles (77F S@14 tailwind) ;)

work>home
- 23.2 / 13.2 miles (85F S@16 headwind):(

daily avg = 24.3 / 26.6 miles
week avg = 23.7

Tank is sitting just above 1/8 with 385.4 miles
MPG~23.6 with the ETE creeping up to 519 miles again. (135 miles left ;))

Tank fill: 2.4 gal over 124miles for 51.6MPG.

Contributing factors included unusually difficult beep-and-creep on the Interstate, slight clutch slip due to oil, and a slick kickstand dropping the bike off the edge of the pavement.