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Cheated again! Oh well.

Welcome to a new week and continued upward trending in temperature readings. :)

35F, 3mph headwind from the SSW, foggy:


89.0mpg for 22.8mi (Home to work)

The tank is up to 85.7mpg over 482.8mi with 11 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

With a temp of 37F, I'm up to 71.3 for the 19.0 round to take my wife to work.

Very nice, Larry!! :thumbs_up:

73.2 for me this morning, at 50 degrees, but with a stiff headwind.

I'm dragging my tank up, now it's at 67.7 / 309 miles.

Well that stay at work was rather shorter than I had anticipated. My daughter has a fever again so I had to drive home.

At least the coolant wasn't completely down to ambient temp yet. 60F is better than 35F!

35F (28F windchill), 9mph tail/crosswind from the S, overcast and wet roads:


91.6mpg for 22.5mi (Work to home)

The tank is up to 86.0mpg over 505.4mi with 10 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 90.2mpg over 45.3mi

Man is it ever amazing how much the Prius comes alive when the temperature goes over 45F.:) We hit a high of 57F here and the wind was S@ <5 mph.
71.3 19.0-to wife's work and back
80 19.2-to wife's work and back
Average for today was 75.4 mpg. If the weather holds for a couple more days, I think I'll go get the Ecopia tires put back on and just drive the wife's Saturn if we do get any more snow.

?? we hit a high of 59 here.

?? we hit a high of 59 here.
To paraphrase the soup nazi, "No global warming for you!":p

"Please, sir, may I have some more [global warming]?"

Golab warming is back here in florida:D high was near 70 today. and latwer this week will be clsoe to 80 :woot:

today wasn't bad at all. was still cool in morning but temp had started to rise by the time i left for work this morning.

40.2- 7.2 mile to work. was seeing some better numbers at certain checkpoints but had traffic and that last light got me! :(

44.6- 6.2 mile home this has me wondering. high temp was 70, but by the time i left for home was down to 62. maybe the warmer air earlier helped with the car being warmer?? I am also noticing coasting seems to have increased speedwise. I did catch the green light coming out of my loop and that helped get me over 44.

home>school>work:
- 23.4 / 13.6 miles (45F SE@6 tail wind)

work>home:
- 21.6 / 13.2 miles (60F SE13 gusting to 20 with Rain (double wammy!:()

daily avg = 22.5 / 26.8 miles
tank is just above 1/4 with 288.2 miles (~21.2 MPG)

The temperature was 35F and the wind was ESE@ <5 mph. The daily average is at 71.8 mpg.
73.3 8.9
70.5 10.0

No driving for me today. My daughter is still ill. :(

:( sean

60.6 home last night after a dinner out, with child #1 on board. It was raining. Halfway home I heard the dreaded "I have to go". :rolleyes: She didn't have to 10 minutes earlier when we asked her, before leaving the restaurant. I drove faster the rest of the way.

77.1 this morning at 55 degrees.

The tank is down from last night, back up part of the way this morning, to 67.5 / 330 miles.

No numbers yesterday because i rode the bicycle to school. If everything works out i should be using the bicycle again tomorrow instead of the car.

Couldn't ask for better conditions, except maybe a little warmer. This morning it was 38F with calm winds. On the way home this afternoon it was 50F with winds from the NNW @ 16mph actually giving me a nice tail wind.

- 48.4mpg for 22.6 miles from home to the gym
- 40.6mpg for 6.2 miles from the gym to school
- 45.4mpg for 23.4 miles from school to home

Day total: 46mpg. The tank is currently at 49.3mpg over 354.9 miles with just under 1/2 remaining on the fuel gauge :).

Nice work, Dan. :)

My daughter seems to be feeling better. I'm relieved. :)

I went home for lunch. It was a nice day - 75 degrees.

76.7 / 10.7 miles home, with a tailwind.
79.7 / 9.5 back to work, headwind and different route. My usual was closed for road maintenance - badly needed. This put me onto the heavier traffic 2-lane so I had to go faster. Probably would have been 90 mpg or so without that reversal and rerouting.

Tank is up to 68.1 / 350 miles.

Lil cool this morning, but with it being early i basicly had the road to myself and could coast to my "fav" light.

41.1- 7.2 mile temp was 51.

was cloudy here so i didn't expect much and right off got held up at work while someone had to manuver back and forth to make it into a parking space.
I also go a horn beeped at me as i turned onto my street.


40.9- 6.2 mile home temp was 69. oh well gotta take what I'm given.

tank sitting at 305 mile 41.4


4:55 pm: all day long been cloudy and now finaly the sun comes out. it's a conspiricy!!

A good fillup yesterday! It's a bit short as I am lending the car to a friend for the day, and I didn't want them to look at the fuel gauge and freak out. Or have their driving "contaminate" my tank... ;)

47+ MPG makes it one of my better tanks. Unfortunately, I think most of that was due to rather more freeway driving than average, so I think the fuel usage per day is higher. But keeping MB at a steady 50 MPH (up to 55 sometimes) works very well at pulling good FE numbers. I used high-speed P&G for a trip on I-280, which has definite hilly sections. I would pulse uphill, or on longer hills I would just maintain 50 MPH, then I would glide (frequently in FAS) on the downhill. For flatter roads, I just stay at 50.

My CleanMPG average is almost up to 150% of EPA! I'd love to see it get there soon...

-soD

nice numbers S_O_D

home>school>work
- 21.9 / 13.6 miles (53F SE 12 gusting to 17) Winds didn't really help much most of the time they were sideways:rolleyes:

work>home
- 22.2 / 13.3 miles (61F SW 23 gusting to 31) really didn't help with mostly a head wind

daily avg = 22.0 / 26.9 miles
tank is ~21.3 with just under 1/4 on 315.1 miles

We hit 56F and the wind was ESE@ 5-10 with gusts to 20 mph.
73.3 8.9-to coffee
70.5 10.0-on to wife's work then on to home
76.3 19.1-to wife's work and back
Average for today was 74.0 mpg.

went to five guys for dinner. I know it's not good for the heart but I luv those greasy burgers they fix there.

40.1. no idea for distance. forgot to check on the sg. car still had lil heat WT was almost 90

comening home is where i was :D. I found the perfect spot there. when i rolled back i was like :eek: when shoud i stop! :p

I was showing 25 mpg before i got out of the parking lot. got through all 3 lights too!!

49.7 mpg!! :woot:

Now that's the way to do it, Mike!!!! :woot:

Yeah it's amazing what a warmed up car can do!

The conditions were not so great this morning but the car was feeling really solid and I finally managed to break through 90mpg on the way in. :)

I also got passed by a red Insight-I! :eek:

37F (31F windchill), 7mph head/crosswind from the ENE, raining:


90.9mpg for 22.8mi (Home to work)

The tank is now up to 86.2mpg over 528.2mi with 9 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

I am off work today. have a dentist appointment to see about this toothache. :(

Sean, Looking good there! might be able to keep the lifetime above 90! :)

I'm close, Mike. :D

Good luck with that tooth!! :(

Oh, boy, am I ever looking forward to summer! :D

81.5 mpg home, 75 degrees. That's my best ever homeward commute! :D :woot:
82.2 this morning, 60 degrees

The tank is up to 68.9 / 376 miles. I hope to break 70 this time. Last year my first 70 wasn't until June.

Go, Andrew, Go!!! :D :flag:

I'm loving the warmer weather.:) And, as you can maybe tell by segment 4 below, I got the Ecopia's put back on today. :woot: The average is at 72.0 so far for today.
68.5 19.1
66.7 7.3
62.9 2.7
92.8 8.7

Here he comes! What's your temp today, Larry?

Back from the dentist and we saved the tooth! :) He sadi it was an important one to try and keep so i said go ahead and save him. unfortunately i was epecting to have it pulled so i drove the 1.5 miles to the office.

took a diff route home and got stuck in traffic. the rode my bike to the grocery store for two prescriptions only to find they don't have a pharmacy there. and to top it off I left the key for my bike lock at home so had to walk half mile home. so i went to the store with the pharmcy and took a diff route home from before i did ok.



total for today was only 37.x last trip was 45.x and that saved me. tank down to 41.3 now 328 miles.


Temp here is 80 right now! :D

Spring breakers are here now.

I'm glad your tooth is okay! You don't get to grow another one. :p

My trip home wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be. Traffic and lots of rain take a toll...

40F (34F windchill), 8mph cross/tailwind from the E, raining:


85.7mpg for 23.5mi (Work to home)

The tank is back down to 86.0mpg over 551.7mi with 9 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 88.1mpg over 46.3mi

Here he comes! What's your temp today, Larry?
It started out fairly warm this morning. I had 47F. For segments 2, 3, and 4 the temp was 55F. By the time I got to segments 5 & 6, we got up to 62F. The wind was SSE@ 5-15 with gusts to 25 mph.
68.5 19.1-to wife's work and back
66.7 7.3-to tire store to get snows off
62.9 2.7-tire store to gas station
92.8 8.7-station to home
104 11.4-to wife's work-It's awesome what 60F+, LRR tires, and a moderate tailwind can do :)
84 11.4-back home
Average for today was 78.7 mpg.

home>school>work:
- 21.9 / 13.6 miles (41F Calm) Noticed that the plugin was not working as the wt temp was ambient temp :(

work>home:
- 23.2 / 13.2 miles (59F W3 but rain drops off and on all the way home big Tstorm in the area)

daily avg = 22.5 over 26.8 miles
tank ~21.4 with just over 1/8 on 341.9 miles

wow Larry those are some great numbers with those tires.

I love the goodyears we just put on the wifes, even in the rain to church tonight they just kept coasting fooorrrrreeeevvvveeeeeerrrrr :eek::)

I had rather less luck driving to Church than I would like. I had to stop for 3/4 of the lights, traffic was heavy, it was raining, and I had a headwind. :rolleyes:

38F (33F windchill) down, 7mph headwind from the SE, raining,
36F (28F windchill) back, 11mph tail/crosswind from the SSE, wet roads:


74.9mpg for 17.2mi (Home to Church :o)
90.7mpg for 17.2mi (Church to home)

The tank is back down to 85.7mpg over 586.2mi with 8 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 85.5mpg over 80.8mi

I had to do something to redeem myself after that awful segment last night... :o

36F (30F windchill), 7mph head/crosswind from the NE, wet roads and drizzle:


96.8mpg for 22.8mi (Home to work)

The tank is all the way back up to 86.2mpg over 609.0mi with 7 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Good redeeming sean! :)

Larry: if it's warm out isn't there some " wiring" you could be doing?? :p


I am off today still. Warm out but there's 80% chance of rain. So I'm gonna stay inside today.

Good redeeming sean! :)

Larry: if it's warm out isn't there some " wiring" you could be doing?? :p


I am off today still. Warm out but there's 80% chance of rain. So I'm gonna stay inside today.
Wiring?;)

I had 51F this morning and the wind was ESE@ 5-10 mph. I'm at 78.9 mpg for the day.

Sean - what do you need as a final tank number, to maintain your 90 lifetime?


81.2 / 10.7 home, 76 degrees
77 / 10.6 this am, 46 degrees

Tank is up to 69.4 / 398 miles and about 3/4 on the gauge.

Good question, Andrew. If I could fill up right now without moving the car any further (and the pump agreed with my FCD) I'd be at 90.1mpg. Projecting forward, I've got 7 more bars after the one I'm on which ends up being somewhere around 7.5*45mi=337.5mi until I need to fill. With a tank total distance of 946.5mi I would need...

27483.7mi + 946.5mi = 28430.2mi

28430.2mi / 90.0mpg = 315.891g

Total used so far = 304.618g

315.891g - 304.618g = 11.273g for the tank

So I need to achieve a minimum of 946.5mi/11.273g = 83.96mpg to maintain at least 90mpg for my lifetime average (over the assumed distance). If I drive a little further of course the number will need to be higher. A little less and it can be lower.

Ideally, I'd like to halt the slide completely. For that, I'd need...

28430.2mi / 90.223mpg = 315.075g

315.075 - 304.618 = 10.457g

946.5mi/10.457g = 90.51mpg

Based on my current usage, from this point on I'd need to average...

10.457g - 609mi/86.2g = 3.392g

337.5mi/3.392g = 99.49mpg

That one is unlikely to happen. :o I should be okay for the goal of keeping my lifetime above 90mpg, though!

That's (generally) good news, Sean!

I went to a school play at my daughter's pre-K school. Overwhelming cuteness, of course!

61.1 / 3.8 going there.
99.2 / 3.6 coming back. :D (same route as my best-ever segment of 105, and my 3rd best on ANY route EVER)

Tank is steady at 69.4 / 405.

This again illustrates the problem with mpg-based math instead of gpm. The round-trip was 75.1 mpg, not 80 like a simple average would give. Total fuel used / total distance.

Nice work, Andrew!! My Elantra can't come anywhere close to that 99.2mpg segment (the big FSP!) ;)

Used the bicycle yesterday instead of the car. This morning when i left it was 39F and now it's currently 48F with cloudy skies and very little wind.

- 49.2mpg for 23.5 miles from home to school
- 41mpg for 8.1 miles from school to the gym
- 44.9mpg for 23.2 miles from the gym to home

Day total: 45.9mpg

The tank is down to 48.9mpg over 409.9 miles with about 1/3 remaining on the fuel gauge. It's probably gonna go down from here because i have to make some short trips later today.

Man, this rain is really getting to be a drag. Literally. Lots of standing water on the roads. :p

46F (40F windchill), 11mph head/crosswind from the ENE, raining:


83.4mpg for 23.5mi (Work to home)

The tank is back down to 86.0mpg over 632.5mi with 7 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 89.5mpg over 46.3mi

I still have to make a run to and from Church tonight.

We hit a high of 59F today. Winds of SE@ 5-15 mph with gusts to 30 mph made it difficult to make any real progress. The light rain that started on segment 3 didn't help much either.
78.9 18.8-to wife's work and back
93.2 11.4-to wife's work
76.8 11.8-back home with a minor detour to my mom's
Average for today...81.7 mpg!:woot:

46F with very little wind for the last trips today.

- 48mpg for 2.6 miles from home to school to pick up friend's son
- 39.1mpg for 1.6 miles from school to friend's house
- 45.1mpg for 4.9 miles from friend's house to store
- 38.7mpg for 6.3 miles from store to home

Day total: 45mpg

Tank is down to 48.6mpg over 425.6 miles with over 1/4 left on the fuel gauge.

home>school>work
- 21.6 / 13.6 miles (43F W@13)

work>home
- 21.8 / 13.3 miles (43F W@13-20)

daily avg = 21.7 / 26.9 miles
tank ~21.4 with 1/8 left and 368.8 miles

The trip down was pretty good considering the traffic and the fact that I left late for my meeting...

42F (37F windchill), 8mph cross/headwind from the ENE, wet roads and overcast:


83.8mpg for 17.2mi (Home to Church)


The trip home, though... that was "Revenge of the Insight" territory. :D Have I mentioned that this route is mostly uphill to my house? ;)

42F (38F windchill), 6mph cross/tailwind from the E, wet roads:


98.2mpg for 17.2mi (Church to home)

The tank is back up to the 86.2mpg mark over 667.0mi with 6 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 90.0mpg over 80.8mi

Not quite as good as yesterday, but not bad with the standing water on the roads.

38F (34F windchill), 5mph cross/tailwind from the NNE, foggy:


93.7mpg for 22.8mi (Home to work)

The tank is up to 86.4mpg over 689.9mi with 5 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

I had 51F this morning and the wind was SSE@ 5-10 mph. The daily average is at 80.5 mpg.

72.6 home last night
67.3 this morning.

I lost several mpg to a stop I chose to make. I picked up some bags of leaves a someone put out for trash pickup. They're going into my compost pile, and in the garden next season. Yeah, I know... stopping to pick up other people's trash... :o

42F with cloudy skies and very little wind.

- 50.2mpg for 21.6 miles from home to school

Tank is up to 48.7mpg over 447.2 miles with a little over 1/4 left on the fuel gauge.

Typical Friday traffic and par for the course weather (for this week, anyway).

41F, 3mph cross/tailwind from the E, foggy with some rain and plenty of water on the roads:


86.1mpg for 23.0mi (Work to home)

The tank is steady at 86.4mpg over 712.9mi with 4 of 20 bars remaining on the fuel gauge.

Day Total: 89.7mpg over 45.8mi

50F with cloudy skies and winds from the E @ 9mph.

- 41.8mpg for 8 miles from school to the gym
- 39.7mpg for 6.2 miles from the gym back to school
- 43.4mpg for 23.4 miles from school to home (fighting headwinds pretty much the whole time)

Day total: 44.9mpg

Tank average is down to 48.1mpg over 485 miles with a little over 1/8 remaining on the fuel gauge. Next time i go out, which hopefully won't be until next week, i'll have to get gas.

What a messy day! i got lucky in that i got to work before the sky opened up and it sure did!! didn't get so lucky when came time to check in my delivery. started pouring and had all kinds of wet boxes to put away.

43.1- 7.2 mile to work. temp was 65 at 5:20 am

40.3 7.3 mile home. wind was coming from the s.e which is almost 100% headwind. instead of doing my loop i went through the light and made the next turn around and then had a nice tailwind and once i saw light was green i coasted about 1/2mile to make my turn.

also coming from work up that long 2 mile straight road. Unless the light goes green when i'm at a certain sign I know i won't make it so i won't even try. but the cars behind me seem to thionk that i should and today i saw in mirror car behind me the driver shaking his hands.I moved over to do a lil RR so he had a chance to pass but he didn't bite.

home>work
- 20.6 / 13.6 (40F SW@6 with light rain)

work>home
- 20.3 / 13.2 (41F W@10 with rain and standing water on the road)

with the temps lower and wet roads I was robbed of about 1 MPG, that is a lot to me:(

daily avg = 20.5 over 26.8 miles
tank ~21.4 MPG with just over the E line and 395.6 on the ODO. I will need to fill on Monday after work SG says I have 3.1 Gals left (I usually use about 1.2-1.3 per day)