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Since I'm the only one on spring break and snowed in...heh, I'll go ahead and throw one up.

I think I may finally have the hypermiling deal back after a horrid, horrid run on Friday (44-something, 39-something) that probably ruined my tank - today I got 51.8 and 53.6 going to White Castle. About 20 degrees outside, and the side streets were still pretty bad (The main roads were good, though.)

37.6 MPG at 29ºF this morning.

I pushed this morning and though the first part of the drive was quite nice, the second half had me stopping a few times. :p

7F, no wind, clear:


78.0mpg for 22.5mi (Home to work)

The tank is back down to 81.0mpg over 449.6mi with 10 bars left on the tank.

I should hit over 800mi on this tank. :D

Good morning, y'all ... :)

I really don't have anything to post this morning, but did want to say hello. I had so much on my mind on the way in that I even forgot to zero my FCD before leaving home. So, I have no idea how I did, but I suspect that it was nothing to write home about.

Have a great one!

Fr. John

86.2mpg at 53F just after a rain - could have been 90mpg if I left earlier.

Some hothead gave me the bright lights, even though he had three lanes to the left to use, which he did five seconds later. A minute later, I glided past him and honked at him. :p

42*F, 5mph tailwind

89.7 mpg / 16.8 mi

A bit of a surprise this morning considering the temps and the traffic. Would have easily been 95+ if one large interstate clot hadn't been present.

Nothing refines your technique like 5 days and nights with a handful of hypermilers.

The drive home from the airport (67 degrees): 68.6 mpg / 148 mi / 42mph average

This morning, 55F and light drizzle: 70.1 mpg / 11.3 miles. PR for that route by 2+ mpg, and 2nd best for any route!

The tank, round trip to DFW plus this morning: 62.3 mpg / 323 miles.

Holy cow, Andrew! Nice driving! :thumbs_up:

Wow Andrew...

Makes me wonder why I sold my 97 Civic DX hatch.

Maybe because it was swapped, dropped, and too hard to drive slow. :)

The Insight has done it's job of training me by now though, so I'll be doing better no matter what vehicle I find myself behind the wheel of.

Nothing refines your technique like 5 days and nights with a handful of hypermilers.

The drive home from the airport (67 degrees): 68.6 mpg / 148 mi / 42mph average

This morning, 55F and light drizzle: 70.1 mpg / 11.3 miles. PR for that route by 2+ mpg, and 2nd best for any route!

The tank, round trip to DFW plus this morning: 62.3 mpg / 323 miles.

Wow. I think I need to go on one of those cross country trips and spend a week with other hypermilers. I could get 300 MPG that way... :eek:

Not too bad of a day here. Temps started at ~25F and reached 36F and the winds were from the NW at 5-10 mph.
1. 60.2-5.8(home to wife's work)
2. 66.4-9.6(wife's work to mine)
3. 67.9-9.6(my work to wife's)
4. 90.5-6.3(wife's work to home)
Average for the day was 69.3 and the tank is at 67.2 on the SG2(70.2 MFD) after 418.2 miles.

After seeing Andrew's leap in mileage I have to go on the next trip if I can. Nice work Andrew!

32.0 to the bank and back (about a mile). Tank is struggling badly, at 46.0 after 56 miles.

74.1 / 211 miles. Winter has come back for one last flurry, so my first 80 tank may be late March.

So I've become a bit excited & obsessed with the PHEV-6/7 retrofit possibility:

http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8269&highlight=PHEV-6

Given that there are always the inevitable delays, I'd be best served to become a bit more patient. Having said that, I'm looking in your direction early 2009....... :)

So I opened up the old spreadsheet to figure out what my commute would look like with a PHEV-6/7. The facts & assumptions:

Highway commute is 21.6 miles RT
City commute is 23.2 miles RT
Highway commute is ~60mpg average, or 25% above 45mpg EPA
City commute is ~80mpg average, or 67% above 48mpg EPA
I can hypermile that 6/7 miles of Grid EV by the same 25% or 67%

Results?

Highway commute with 1 charge at home: 108mpg
City commute with 1 charge at home: 182mpg

But what if I browbeat my employer to begin providing outlets (which I will do like a toddler)?

Highway commute with 2 charges at home & work: 309mpg
City commute with 2 charges at home & work: 497mpg

The last one is almost gas free. I'd come up 2.8 miles short.

This does not take into account the (cheaper) cost of electricity, so the fuel cost in terms of mpg would be lower. It also does not take into account the possible extended glide to 60mph, so those highway figures might be better.

Either way..............I'm headed straight to the papers once I get this baby.

Inspired by Andrew's boost, I thought I'd go out and see what I could do on this sunny day. :)

30F (25F windchill), 6mph crosswind from the SW, sunny:

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/504/Best_drive_home_30F_with_6mph_wind_SW.jpg

:D

Not quite as much of an improvement as Andrew managed, but still over my previous PR by 1.7mpg. :)

Now if I could just convince those other cars to stay out of my way and stop triggering the stop lights... :D

The tank is back up to 81.7mpg over 471.8mi with 10 bars remaining on the fuel gauge. ;)

Interesting stuff today. I took the Mustang to Dallas Mustangs today - about a 200mi. round trip (including a stop at Hooters in Mesquite, teehee), and ended up getting my best tank ever in this car, 15.475mpg. This is still extremely low for one of these (most well-tuned Mustangs of the same vintage and motor get 17-20mpg highway, even lacking overdrive), but with that E10 swill these vintage cars hate, wet roads adding rolling resistance, and no fan clutch, it's amazing how it seems to have come up. Curiously enough, even though the rad fan is solid mounted to the water pump pulley and so gets slung around at high rpm's constantly, it seemed to actually be able to run a little warmer on the highway than in-town, which possibly contributed some to the rise. And/or, perhaps, it's starting to loosen up a little bit (remember, this still a fresh rebuild, about ~5k miles on it).

its been a while since I've stopped by a daily grind thread, but i feel its for good reason, ive decided after another sub 40 MPG tank (39.659) that I'm gonna find a new way to get to/fro work that doesn't involve interstate 270 (or should i say parking lot 270)

every morning involves going up a rather steep/long hill that is constantly stop and go and each night no matter how big of a buffer I leave between me and the car in front of me someone will cut in front of me and lay all over the brakes GURRRR

-thanks for listening

PS: andrew it seems that the 5 days you spent were rather beneficial, good work

ok, it warmed up above freezing for a change.

53.3 for the day, not up to my standards, but better than i have been seeing lately.

I had a driver start to get out of his car to yell at me at a stop light this afternoon. The light turned green as he was leaning out, so I gave a polite beep of the horn. :D The resulting run home was not as good as I had hoped. 38ish MPG.

Well I took a trip to DC this past weekend. Drove roughly 300 miles on that "must contain 10% ethanol" stuff. Felt great to be 10% saving the world. Yeah right, boondoggle nonsense or whatnot.

Anyways, noticed nobody has a Kia Spectra in the mileage logs. So let me add my rental car to it.

I got 31.5mpg over roughly 300 miles. Sucks how I have to try so [insert favorite swear here] hard to get the same out of my regular car. All I did with the rental was DWB. All driving on highways with 25 to 55mph speed limits where you get stuck at every light. Yes, wtf, 25mph speed limit? No overinflated tires. No P&G. No scangauge. No shutoff at stoplights. Kia Spectra isn't a bad car at all. It's just as nice on the inside as my WRX. Now I see why everyone says the WRX has a cheap econocar interior, but it looks nice to me.

Also got lost in downtown DC for a good hour and a half of basically sitting still idling cause of the traffic. WHAT THE FREAK KIND OF TOWN HAS 2 ROADS WITH THE SAME NAMES IN DIFFERENT AREAS? 8th street should just be 8th street. Only 1 8th street. Not 8th street north west, and then 8th street north east on the other side of the god danged city.

http://www.cleanmpg.com/index.php?page=garage&displayunits=MPG(US)&viewcar=988
http://www.cleanmpg.com/garage/images/988.png
2007 numbers were 27/35 with 30mpg combined. So at least even with the old numbers I still got 105% of the combined epa.

Also got lost in downtown DC for a good hour and a half of basically sitting still idling cause of the traffic. WHAT THE FREAK KIND OF TOWN HAS 2 ROADS WITH THE SAME NAMES IN DIFFERENT AREAS? 8th street should just be 8th street. Only 1 8th street. Not 8th street north west, and then 8th street north east on the other side of the god danged city.



Sounds a bit like Chico, CA. They have "the avenues" and "the streets" - within easy walking distance of each other, you might have 7th avenue and 7th street. Easily confusing, but once you learn that the streets are on one side of a major thoroughfare and the avenues on the other, it starts to become more clear. Apparently Chicoans are sort of proud of their ability to befuzzle newcomers.

Hi All:

___Just got back from the Detroit to Chicago to San Francisco to LA and trip home about an hour ago. With 4 in the iCDTi and maybe 200 #’s of gear, she allowed a decent 2.7L/100 Km or 87.11 mpg over ~ 60 miles from the far south suburbs of Chicago to Elk Grove Village (a Western burb) to drop off Stephen, Ken and his son Sean.

___Once all the people and gear were let loose, she was especially nice to me :)

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/505/94_08_mpg_back_from_Elk_Gropve_Village_to_Home_27_degrees.jpg
94.1 mpg over 42 miles – 10% city/90% highway in 27 degree F temps.

___I have to take her back to Michigan early in the morning and boy will she be missed :(

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Good morning all, y'all ... 'tis a balmy 31F here with no appreciable winds. 53.2 into my parking space this morning.

Have a great one!

Pax,

Fr. John

Very nice, Wayne! I'm glad to see you safely back. :)

Padre, you just keep serving up the good stuff! Keep up the good work. :):thumbs_up:

Blue Swayed sure likes this "warm" stuff! If it hadn't been for the headwind I think I could have beat my record in...

30F (25F windchill), 5mph headwind from the S, clear:


86.4mpg for 22.6mi (Home to work)

Good enough to pull the tank up to 82.0mpg over 494.4mi with 9 bars (of 20) remaining on the fuel gauge. :D

finally. 30 degrees. light wind.

63.2 for 15.7 miles to work

This fog helps - last night 87.8mpg - this morning 93.5mpg.

Nice new record, Sean! Glad I could inspire you.

Wayne... !$%#@$!! If only we could do that with a full load! Amazing what 2 more people and some bags will do.

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Home last night, with a stop at the chiropractor: 61.5 / 13.8 miles

The fog didn't really help me this morning - couldn't time the lights. 63 / 11.7 mi

Tank's steady at 62.3 and 349 miles.

Had to be at work a little early this morning, so headlights on was the story. (Boo).

Also used key-based FAS rather than the switch for a while (experimentation) so the trip came in at 78.3 mpg - probably actually in the 82-83 range due to lost mileage. Temps were 35*F.

Wow there are some really great numbers being posted here in the daily grind...

Who would have thought that a few people crammed into 2 cars for 5 or 6 days could be such an inspiration? I'm privileged to have been a part of this.

Andrew, amazing numbers... a PR on your first day back?!! by a nice margin too, I can hardly wait until you get some good temps to work with.

Sean, great job on the new record!

Wayne... wow you really waved that magic wand in your run back home...

The way home last night in 28F temps and medium traffic on expressway 30.6. On the way in this morning 32.8. I can see that its going to be a couple weeks again before I'll be able to hear any kind of alarm clock... wife had to practically beat me into conciousness. It was easier to wake up my son Sean, only about 8 or 9 calls from his bedroom doorway instead of about 3 or 4 calls.

15.4 miles at 25°F this morning, no wind or precip. 38.7 MPG into the lot. Gage is at 3/4 from my last fill on February 8.

39.7 MPG this morning. I'm filling up this afternoon, so I'll finally get past the 5k mark of my driving the 'rolla.

The warm temps are making the Prius produce some better numbers today. I'm at 71.3 for the day(all work commute) with ~10 miles left for the day. The second half of the day is what I was glad to see; 78.2 mpg.:woot:

Another weary but now highly trained traveler has returned! I have sooooo much work to catch up on that I'm using my lunch (late) to post. Isn't it odd how tiredness affects your ability to start a finish a task. I've found myself starting one thing, then switching to a 2nd, 3rd or 4th before finishing the task at hand. I was swimming in all these over due items until I began to write them down. Phew! These high priority immediate tasks are finished.


Andrew - You awesome Hypermiling Sponge you! Taking it to a new level.

Sean - Way to become inspired by Andrew (and maybe a flash of your competitive nature too). 100 mpg is coming fast!

Wayne - What Andrew said! @#$%*&##. Another outstanding result from the hypermiling guru!

Larry - That 90.5 mpg @ just above 32*F is beautiful. You must be quite happy with the result.

FrJohn - I've been noticing a steady increase from your daily numbers. I had a chance to drive Tarabell's HCHII and got 47.3 & 53.4 mpg over ~ 6-7 miles. That re-gen happy car kicked my butt! Keep it up.


After reading the great numbers you all have been posting while we've been in Boot Camp (more on that later), I'm some what embarrassed to tell you my number's yesterday and today. After 5 days of 24/7 training I drove one of my worst segments over 7 miles. 27.8 mpg over 7.1 miles from Ken's work to home. Sorry Wayne you are a much better teacher than my driving shows :( :mad: :confused: Ken, it would have been better to follow you & your route then traveling Rte 86. This morning was much better but not the giant leap forward that the Hypermiling Sponge (Andrew) was able to implement. 36.0 mpg over 22.3 miles at 24.1*F & side winds of 15 mph. Best result with a properly calibrated SGII though. :o I think it is time to consider getting a different car. Heck anything with a stick!

I'll be posting about BOOT CAMP shortly with pictures in the Re-enactment thread.

Cheers!

Changing my user title now...

Good to have you back, Stephen! Don't worry about the low numbers too much -- you've had quite the experience and your car is a LOT different than what you've been driving.

It was WAY warmer today -- a full 17F warmer! I walked out of work thinking, "100+mpg, here I come!!!" and promptly got stuck in some of the worst traffic I've seen in weeks. Maybe I left at just the wrong time but I kept having to stop for lights and getting forced to drive through what seemed like lakes of runoff water from the ice banks along the sides of the roads. Coupled with a headwind and horrid traffic in Anoka I didn't even get close. :(

I pulled her up to 96mpg and figured I'd go whole hog on the shoulder... got over into a long turn lane, waiting for two trucks to pass, hit the hazards as I got to the shoulder, then noticed as the second one was passing there was a State Trooper behind a little ways! :eek:

Doggone it!!!

I pulled back onto the road behind the guy who passed me and turned off the hazards... then drifted up to 40 (45mph limit) as slowly as I dared. No issues, but it totally killed my chances of getting the number any higher. Then the stop and go in Anoka... :p

Oh well. There will be better and even warmer days in the future. :)

48F (45F windchill), 7mph headwind from the NW, sunny:


94.4mpg for 22.2mi (Work to home)

The tank is now up to 82.4mpg over 516.7mi with 9 bars left on the fuel gauge.

This is going to be my last segment for this week as I'm going to be out of town for a bit...

The temps started out at ~25F and got to a high of 39F and winds were 5-10 mph from the SW. I tried a different route today from my work back to my wife's work(segment 3). I think it worked.:) It was 2 miles farther but it was nearly 11 mpg better than yesterday on the old route. Is it a keeper?
1. 63.8-5.8(home to wife's work)
2. 65.3-9.6(wife's work to mine)
3. 78.7-11.6(my work to wife's work-new route)
4. 77.4-6.3(wife's work to home)
5. 76.9-4.9(home to voice lessons)
6. 69.0-4.9(voice lessons to home)
Average for today was 71.7 and the tank is at 67.6 on the SG2(70.7 MFD) after 461.7 miles with 4 pips showing.

Sean, have a safe trip and hurry back.

well I made good on my promise yesterday, the way home netted 42.6 MPG and was 1.1 mile shorter (19.6 instead of 20.7)

and it took about the same amount of time to get home despite a whole lot more traffic signals (sit at a few stoplights or sit on the highway in traffic.. my pick)

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Drove up to Philly today (about 580 miles). Filled up after 382.4 for 52.1 MPG. The rest of the trip per Sg was 51.3.

Well, I got my fan clutch in today. I'm still a bit dubious - I had to go to a 6-bladed fan with a really deep pitch to fit over the clutch, so I'm now not so sure how much I'll be saving vs. the solid-mount 5-blade. In any case, though, getting rid of that bent pulley really helped smooth out the ride.

82.3 RT Commute today. Looks like the 80s are here to stay until October.

I may have had a breakthrough with the wife. You who are married know how it goes. You hope she develops your passions, but you can't push it or it will backfire. So you patiently suggest & nudge and such.

She loves her Highlander ($54 fill last week :( ). 9/11, Inconvenient Truth, Gas Prices, Iraq, nothing so far as worked. But tonight we watched this movie:

http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/

And afterwards we were talking about what we should do. My explanation of my Prius PHEV-7 plans were received as if there was hope for the future. That Highlander's days may be numbered. :)

I filled up yesterday 1) because I needed to, and 2) because Shell gives 5 cents off all gas on Tuesdays. On the way to the station I saw this:
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l23/Skwyre7/Mileage/PIC-0117.jpg

Sorry about that picture quality. I snagged it just as I was coasting by as my light turned green (:D). On second thought, if the picture were any clearer, you could see what kind of beast that thing actually was.

I filled up, adjusted my SG, and headed home. I think I negated what I saw on my way to fill up with what I saw once I got home:

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l23/Skwyre7/Mileage/PIC-0120.jpg

It's pretty much downhill the whole way, with a bunch of traffic lights. I hit 56 MPG at one point, but then had to deal with some hills near my house.

This morning was 41.7 MPG.

88.8mpg this morning inspite of a couple of hotheaded tailgaters. First one had a problem with me boarding the freeway...I know this is a bit of an attitude, but turned my headlights off - he passed...he already had two lanes to the left. ;) Second one was an A$$CAR tailgater that as I was going for the rightmost access lane, he swerves into that lane, then honks. :rolleyes:

Oh, I forgot to mention there was a bad accident on I635 - someone at 3:30 in a compact plowed into the back of an 18-wheeler - killing the two inside instantly. :(
http://images.ibsys.com/2008/0312/15572115_320X240.jpg


Dallas drivers think $3.22 gas is cheap.

Ouch.

39 MPG for ~21 miles on the way home via the car wash last night. Tank's around 38 MPG with about 10 gallons remaining.

I pulled the right rear drum after getting home to check out some strange noises I get from it when starting up in the morning, but didn't find anything unusual. I guess it's just scrubbing off the rust formed from sitting there for a week at a time.

Back on the bicycle for another week....

Last night gave up a 36.2 to work and the way home at 4am was a very pleasant 40.9. We left my house this morning at 6 to head out to Colorado 4prings

Gooooooooooooooooood morning, Y'all ...

50.0 into my parking space this morning. Now, Rhonda and I will be on a bit of a road trip to Harrisburg tomorrow (80-90 miles each way), so I'll not be able to pop in and wish you a good morning. Who knows, I might even find that elusive 60 mpg trip! This will be our first time "on the road", and I'm looking forward to seeing how she does!

Have a great day, and tomorrow, and I'll see you again on Friday! Hopefully, with good news.

Pax,

Fr. John

Nice going, Michael! 50+ in the 'rolla!

Stephen and Ken, have safe trips.


65.4 / 11.5 miles for my drive home, 67 degrees and no wind
68.8 / 11.3 miles into work this morning, 49 degrees and dew

Tank's UP 3 points to 62.6 and 372 miles, needle on 1/2.

Well, this morning was VERY encouraging. Yesterday I did a bit of maintenance, which involved replacing some corroded ground straps (super important in Insights!) and replacing the brakes, which looked to be original.

The replaced ground straps have made it *much* easier to maintain SoC in the HV battery. Kinda irritates me that I've spent so long fighting the HV battery and burning so many joules into hot ground wires. :(

The brakes feel so much better when I actually have to stop... which is rare. :)

1 hour on the block heater this morning netted a 89.0 mpg / 15.6 mi trip @ 35*F - 1 mpg short of PR for this trip, and 30*F colder than said PR.

100+ mpg commutes are definitely in reach...

Insight still needs new clutch and EGR. One thing at a time... :D

Commute home yesterday: 22.3
Commute in this morning: 22.7

These are baseline numbers for me to build on; I'm going to inflate my tires a bit more on Saturday morning, and I'm going to improve at coasting up to stops (at least I'd better, since I suck at it now). I tried a bit of P&G (staying in gear for the moment) but I feel like a hypocrite because I absolutely HATE following someone who can't maintain a constant speed, so I might try ... (/me looks up the right acronym) ... DWL instead.

22.x, and it's rated 21 combined. Good starting point. What's the distance?

Knowing that most of your commute is multi-lane, let them pass. You'll get better at standing your ground.

Yeah, watch out for all these acronyms! It's like a TLA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_letter_acronym) convention around here.

Edit: more details on your engine. It's certified LEV emissions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_V6_engine#L67_Supercharged_2

I thought my commute was pretty close to 6 miles, but according to Google it's 7.495 miles. There's an alternate route that's probably a bit shorter, that I avoid due it having more lights, but I may revisit it to see what my numbers look like when I go that way.

25.3/1.9 miles out to Wally World. Not as familiar with this area (North Philly) as I used to be, beep and creep city driving, going up a long hill, and construction where they were tearing up the whole road conspired to a bad run.

42.6 coming back though (downhill).

I managed 34.3mpg for the last 4 days, which I think is going to be as good as I can get in this weather (cold and very strong winds here in England.) Could probably get one more round-trip to work out of the tank but I don't like pushing it that close.

Given the price difference between gas and diesel, I'm only spending a little more than I used to in my old diesel car, which I didn't hypermile.

Hoping for calmer weather.

~Pete

I'm at 72.1 for the day which includes one segment at 98.6.:) I have ~20 miles of driving left to do and I see a couple of possible 100+ segments coming.:D

Hi All:

___78 mpg to Detroit in the iCDTi. Just 37 from the local train station to home in the Ranger w/ NICE-On’s and highway all the way last night :(

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Love that diesel!

Hate that NICE-On. Do you keep the speeds up a little higher with nice-on? It seems to me that doing so would improve the mileage on the glide part.

Hi Andrew:

___In the summer she will pull about 50 w/ HS P&G’s vs. low 40’s with Nice-On’s doing the same. All the aerodynamics of a brick play a part with the P/U unfortunately :(

___Good Luck

___Wayne

So you're #$%@'d if you do, #$%@'d if you don't? Bummer! Have you thought about going all Phil Knox on it? ;):D

As I suspected, I did get my 100+ segment on the way home from dropping off my daughter; 107 mpg.:woot: This was at 42F. I have a shot at another one in a little while.:)

Okay, this is cool. 22.7 this morning w/ P&G.

24.9 this afternoon with a bit of P&G, then DWL after I remembered that I didn't like P&G.

DWL suits me better than P&G since it's closer to a consistent speed, and looks like it gives me a better result. We'll see how things go tomorrow.

This is my first post in the daily grind. Laker told e about this and after reviewing the thread, I am going to participate. I never used my ScanGauge for the trip figures before the trip and now I know how to do it. So, here goes.

March 12

Trip 1 Home to printer and back 11.2 miles 58.9 MPG

Trip 2 Home to another printer to pick up 1000 lbs of maps (Prius replaced my truck and I do most deliveries in it now.) 11.8 mies 65.8 MPG

Trip 3 Printer to Realtor for delivery 13.3 miles 52 MPG (Big difference with all the maps.)

Trip 4 Realtor to grocery store 13.0 miles 67.2 MPG

Trip 5 Store to home 6.3 miles 66.2 MPG

WOW! It's amazing how much difference temps in the 40'sF make versus temps in the 20's and 30's. This has been one of my better days in months.:) I started out at 30F this morning and I saw a high of 45F and winds were light at 5-10 mph from the west.
1. 64.8-5.8(home to wife's work)
2. 70.4-9.6(wife's work to mine)
3. 41.6-1.1(my work to my mom's)
4. 74.6-8.8(mom's to my wife's work)
5. 73.6-7.7(wife's work to grocery store)
6. 71.4-12.2(grocery store to mom's)
7. 98.6-5.1(mom's to home)
8. 65.6-5.3(home to take daughter to Church)
9. 107-5.3(Church to home)
10. 66.5-5.3(home to pick daughter up at Church)
11. 103-5.3(Church to home)
Average for today was 74.6 and the tank is at 68.4 on the SG2(MFD says 71.6) after 533.9 miles with 3 pips showing.

larry, maybe you could get a space heater to heat the air in front of your car... the 40 MPG increase might make it worth it :)

43.5 MPG from work to the blood drive

50.4 MPG from the blood drive home (still warm engine, I'm a fast blood donor)

larry, maybe you could get a space heater to heat the air in front of your car... the 40 MPG increase might make it worth it :)



I've kind of had my eye on an anti-gravity generator.:D

Larry, you would have loved our weather. This morning started cold but warmed up to 66*F during the day... couldn't help but record the ensuing chaos...

Full day's drive...

85.7 mpg / 20.5 mi - Home -> school -> work
83.7 mpg / 21.7 mi - work -> school -> Best Buy
96.5 mpg / 7.80 mi - Best Buy -> Parent's house
109.9 mpg / 7.7 mi - Parent's house -> home
75.4 mpg / 24.5 mi - Home -> friend's home (1.5 mi) -> home -> friend's home -> gas station -> home

Absolutely nuts.

After work, I pushed my Insight closer to the closest exit door and changed my moring mpg from 87.8 to 89.0mpg :D

For those in the Frozen North, here's a taste of what summer can bring:

80 degrees and sunny. My trip home was 76.0 mpg / 11.1 miles! :woot:

For those in the Frozen North, here's a taste of what summer can bring:

80 degrees and sunny. My trip home was 76.0 mpg / 11.1 miles! :woot:

Andrew you are rocking. Who needs a hybrid with those numbers. After watching Wayne work the i-CDTi, I am thinking of trading with my wife and take her TDI and see what it will do.

Tonight I got 89.7mpg at 55F

For those in the Frozen North, here's a taste of what summer can bring:

80 degrees and sunny. My trip home was 76.0 mpg / 11.1 miles! :woot:

Cripes! I disappear for a day and look what happens!!! :D:thumbs_up:

Double hwy EPA is really something! Way to go, man!! :woot:

Hi ATL:

___You are starting to open up in the Yaris, aren’t you!

___Shifty35, some excellent segments!

___Chuck, you are doing as well as I have every seen you achieve in your Insight!

___Andrew, Holy Smokes!!!! :D :D :D

___Jud, I cannot wait to see what you can/will do in the TDI now ;)

___In the Ranger … Temps from 38 – 44 degrees and winds from the side. She allowed a 42.5 to a boyhood friends wake, 37.5 to a late evening dinner a few miles down the road afterwards and a 41.3 back into the drive for 41.5 for the day. ICE-ON for 98% of that one :( I am thinking about placing the brand new Yellow Top from the Accord into the Ranger and placing the OEM 400 CCA 12V back into the Accord :)

___Good Luck

___Wayne

32 degrees and the roads were frosted. i slowed down even though everyone else didn't want to. i was lucky that on one short segment there was a HUGE semi with a big load going pretty slow. he helped slow down the flow since there was no was to pass on that stretch :)

65.8 into the lot

Nice warm"er" temps, 55*F. EBH on for 1.5 hr before takeoff, 4 bars on the temp guage when I got in the car. :D

I also "pioneered" a new technique for congestion sure to aggravate everyone within at least a mile. Drum roll please...

The FAS-Extending Lane Change!

That's right, you've seen all those fools stomping on the gas and throttling into the next lane trying to gain a couple car lengths, completely in vain. This technique is similar, just much more fuel efficient. While in a FAS, if I see the traffic ahead of me slowing (as I leave a significant gap up front), change lanes to left or right when the opportunity to extend current coast by 50+ feet appears. :D:D:D

I used this technique to "weave" between alternate lanes this morning, each time passing the point where I would have had to stop or slow significantly by at least 50-100 feet, sometimes more.

The trip in was 97.2 mpg / 16.8 mi

24.9 mpg over 6.57 miles @ 54 degrees - took the shorter (and slower) route to see if it made any difference, but got the same numbers as the longer/faster route home yesterday.

Hi Laurie:

___Sounds like you are right back into the hunt. Nice job on the short commute 65!

___Limey, way to push that older GM iron :)

___ Shifty35, I hope the Discovery Channel Vid shows you something you may have just recently discovered ;) And congrats on the 97!!!

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Thanks guys. It's one of those that just, worked. I'm in the Odyssey today, without instrumentation, and out of town tomorrow. No more results this week.

24.9 mpg over 6.57 miles @ 54 degrees - took the shorter (and slower) route to see if it made any difference, but got the same numbers as the longer/faster route home yesterday.

If your MPG's are the same over the shorter route than the longer one, take the shorter one--overall you'll still burn less gas (25 MPG over 10 miles instead of 7 for example means 1/4 gallon instead of 2/5), help the environment a bit, and go easier on your wallet.

Edit: Do you have a choice over which to drive (the Buick or the Cavalier?) If possible, I'd also say take the Cavalier on your daily drives because it (probably) gets higher MPG's.

What I'll probably end up doing is taking the short way to work and the long way home. The reverse of the short way has a left turn onto a busy highway. It doesn't have a light, and at 5:00 you usually have to gun it to catch a space in the traffic. The longer way allows for more gentle acceleration.

Edit to respond to your edit: the Cav is my wife's car, and I've never gotten around to keeping detailed enough records to know exactly what kind of mileage it gets. However, she drives with a heavier foot than me, so whatever I saved in the Cav, she'd most likely make up for in the Buick. Also, I like the Buick more than the Cav, so I'm happy to let her keep it :-)

80 mpg / 17.4 on the way home... had a little too much fun with the electric assist in the beautiful weather we are having today. :D

A really lovely 18.8 going to the library (1.5 miles) to pick up some absentee ballots, and then 23.6 coming back. I don't know how these people in the Northeast do it. I'm glad I don't have to drive in this all the time.

Tank is down to 50.2 after 211 miles.

One trip today

Went to printer and back to approve project.

24.1 miles
66.1 MPG

Does anyone know if there is any kind of charger for the Prius battery. If I could just get up my first hill in EV mode it would be great. Right out of my driveway, I go up a steep hill for 1/2 mile. It is a killer. Yes I go back down the other side, but that first steep hill while the car is still not warmed up is a killer for the MPG.

Does anyone know if there is any kind of charger for the Prius battery.

As far as I know, there isn't one available. Toyota dealerships have access to one but I hear that they share it with several other dealerships in a region.

I almost hit 80 mpg today! After waiting so long for a good mpg day, I'll take it.:) I started out the day with temps at 35F and I saw a high of 54F. Winds were 10-15 mph from the NW. The warmer weather seems to have brought back the maddening habit of the Prius not shutting down the ICE when in S4, coolant temp over 180F, and SoC at 6 bars. It always seemed to happen when I pulsed over 34 mph and couldn't use the EV switch to shut off the ICE.:angry::angry::angry::Banane24: Maybe it's time to install a FAS switch like the one in my article? I believe that segment 3 could have easily been as high as what I got on segment 4 and that segment 4 would have been well over 90 mpg.
1. 64.8-5.8(home to wife's work)
2. 67.1-9.6(wife's work to my work)
3. 74.5-11.6(my work to wife's work-new route)
4. 85.7-6.3(wife's work to home)
5. 87.1-13.9(home to gas station)
6. 94.7-13.9(station to home)
Average for today was 79.5 and the tank is at 94.7.

hung onto 59.6 for the drive home. it was spring like weather, and still had a tailgater back and forth on my butt.

Maybe it's time to install a FAS switch like the one in my article?

Larry, what is this FAS switch you are talking about?

Larry, what is this FAS switch you are talking about?

You can find the article here: http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9145
Wayne is going to be doing some editing of the article so it may disappear from the link above and be placed in a new spot later on.

You can find the article here: http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9145
Wayne is going to be doing some editing of the article so it may disappear from the link above and be placed in a new spot later on.

I would be very interested in this setup for the Prius. I think the way to employ this type of switch would be in Neutral. There the engine cannot try to start the engine if you used the FAS switch.

I would be very interested in this setup for the Prius. I think the way to employ this type of switch would be in Neutral. There the engine cannot try to start the engine if you used the FAS switch.

That was my thought too. The only concern I would have is whether or not the ECU would throw a hissy fit and set a code. I guess it could always be reset with the SG.:p

86.2 Commute today / 75.8 tank @ 270 miles. Our brief winter last hurrah is over, and summer begins for 8 months.

Not surprisingly, it's hard to hit 120mpg to work (~80 on the flats) due to sometimes chilly a.m. temps. But back home it's a toasty 75F, and it's 67mpg every day (~88 on the flats). 90RT around the corner.

I'm surprised there is no hack to charge the Prius battery. I understand it might be difficult and risky............even something that in the end I would not WANT to do. But I'm surprised nobody has done it.

In honor of the Good Padre, Gooooood morning everyone! Today is off to a pretty good start. It's about 39F here and and the wind is <5 mph from the south. I have the day off so it was a quick trip to drop the wife off and back home. For the 6.3 mile trip to her work, I ended up with 78.1 and on the way home, 87.6. This puts my average for the day at 82.6.:woot: I haven't seen those numbers for way too long. With temps forcasted to reach 55F and winds of 5-10 from the SW I can only imagine that my number will only go up.:Banane54::D

92.5mpg at 50F this morning.

30 degrees, no wind. another day, another tailgater. this one wasn't content to just ride my butt when i was doing 50, though hitting the brakes backed them off a little.....i was slowing down for a stop sign at the top of a hill, and they flashed their brights. i pulled a chuck and darn near stopped. WTF? they were behind me for a large part of my drive, and did not like my slow acceleration.

here's a new bumper sticker idea:
tailgating is not a driving skill

60.5 to work

40.6 MPG yesterday, 40.8 going home yesterday.

43.9 MPG this morning!

Goooooooooooooooooooooooood morning all y'all ... 'tis one VERY disappointed and upset Padre with whom you're dealing this morning. I just knew that I'd get that elusive 60 MPG trip yesterday, when I went to Harrisburg. Well, it didn't happen! I guess that driving on the Interstates really does take a different set of skills than those I've cultivated to date.

To Harrisburg, the "downhill" portion of the trip, 54.1 MPG for 83.3 miles. I left in the dark, and arrived in Harrisburg just about sun-up. Trip home was 59.8 MPG to the restaurant where I had dinner. I osculated that 60 MPG, but no cigar. Even though I know my FCD reads a couple of MPG low, I'll not claim it yet.

Where, oh where is that 60 MPG? I know it's attainable! Must I also remove my sock, in addition to the shoe???

Pax,

Fr. John

Good morning FrJohn.

25.4 over 7.57 miles home yesterday, 25.0/6.49 miles in this morning. It's really gratifying to see those numbers get better! :-)

.....i was slowing down for a stop sign at the top of a hill, and they flashed their brights. i pulled a chuck and darn near stopped.I think my reputation for the non-accelerating road rager is growing. :eek:

Fr. John - Congratulations on the 60mpg ride!

Bad morning. Woke up to realize I had left my dome and map lights on last night while fiddling with a GPS unit I borrowed for a trip this weekend.

Dead battery. I managed to get it to start, but the DC-DC refused to charge it... Limped it 2 mi to wife's work, removed battery. Got it load tested, totally toast. Maybe it could have been recharged, but it was a 4 year old factory Honda battery (tiny Insight size). I figured all the FAS work I've been doing with it, even at night, couldn't have been helping it's condition.

So with the battery change, limping 2 mi, I started the morning at 23.4 mpg / 2.3 mi. Not really looking good for the morning. The SoC also showed empty from the IMA reset that goes with losing 12v. 1 mi later, positive recal on the battery, autostop starts working again.

Oh, and it was raining all morning too.

Ended up with 65.0 mpg / 17.1 mi - a nice recovery considering I am going to stop FASing until I have some battery monitoring solution in place.

Where, oh where is that 60 MPG? I know it's attainable! Must I also remove my sock, in addition to the shoe???

Pax,

Fr. John

It'll come to you. As the weather warms up, you'll be gunning for 70 instead. I had a similar problem with 50 in my car - for over a month I racked up several trips well over 50 (And some in the low-mid 60's) but I could never get a tank above 49 - every time I gassed up, my heart was broken. :eek: But eventually it came to me. :D

Hi All:

___Took the Ranger to the USPS to ship some SG-II’s and mail some letters today. 4.6 miles each way in 47 degree temps w/ little wind to speak of. 52.2 there, 53.7 back and 52.7 for the day.

___Fr John, we are right behind you just waiting for the breakout and it will come soon enough … the Lord willing and we know whose side he is on :angel:

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Wayne, smokin' results as usual.:)

I'm now up to 85.6 for the day.:woot: I'll wait to post the final numbers in case there may be any honey-do errands tonight.;)

Left the Sg at home as I took a trip to Wally World. Just as well I did, because it would have thrown up some really small numbers anyway. I'd estimate 20 going out, 50 coming back (downhill).

Hi All:

______Fr John, we are right behind you just waiting for the breakout and it will come soon enough … the Lord willing and we know whose side he is on :angel:

___Good Luck

___Wayne

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, went back and re-read Tarabell's article one more time. When ascending a hill, I'm to keep the iFCD (http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/glossary.php?do=viewglossary&term=51) constant, rather than constant pressure on the accelerator. Seems counterintuitive, but I'll give anything a shot at this point in time.
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Pax,

Fr. John

lamebumsQuote:

It'll come to you. As the weather warms up, you'll be gunning for 70 instead. I had a similar problem with 50 in my car - for over a month I racked up several trips well over 50 (And some in the low-mid 60's) but I could never get a tank above 49 - every time I gassed up, my heart was broken. :eek: But eventually it came to me. :D

Silliest thing is, I've already had that 70 MPG trip. It wasn't a long one, just from home to Church (a bit over 8 miles). I have a photo for that one, but can't do a decent segment length at 60.

When ascending a hill, I'm to keep the iFCD (http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/glossary.php?do=viewglossary&term=51) constant, rather than constant pressure on the accelerator.

In my Insight, constant pedal pressure typically yields a rock solid iFCD. This may not be the case if the speed drops fast enough. If you find your speed falling off too quickly, choose a lower mpg setpoint as you ascend.

You should be figuring out target MPG setpoints and speeds for your normal commutes. On each leg of my commute, I have an MPG setpoint I hold it at and not let my speed drop below 50 mph while hill climbing on the interstate, for example... I try to climb at 75 mpg typically, in lean burn.

The choice I have is this - how much speed to I allow it to pick up descending the last hill? If I don't let it pick up enough, then I have to throttle up to stay at a descent speed while ascending, and that is no bueno.

75 mpg is probably too high of a setpoint in a HCH-2 for hill climbs, but you get the idea. My reasoning with the 75 is it's pretty easy to slide your foot down and peg it at 75, and it seems to climb well at that point without losing too much speed. Some hills I climb @ 100 mpg.

When I first got the car I was desperate to pull some 70 mpg segments... I figured, if the iFCD never goes below 75, neither can the average! :)

Also, my commute home was 78 mpg / 15.4 mi. I'm driving down to Alabama tonight to camp for the weekend, so I should have some numbers to post Sunday in the 300 mi+ range. I'm trying to get down before it gets dark, and will likely have to follow some lead foots on the way home, so I don't expect much impressive.

I'll just try to beat the Civic Diesel's cross country number at least. :D

29.5mpg / 7.57 miles / a balmy 86 degrees, and not much traffic as I left an hour later than usual.

Wow. I get a trip that's 140% better than the combined EPA rating after less than a week of learning how to do this. What numbers are possible?

In my Insight, constant pedal pressure typically yields a rock solid iFCD. This may not be the case if the speed drops fast enough. If you find your speed falling off too quickly, choose a lower mpg setpoint as you ascend.

You should be figuring out target MPG setpoints and speeds for your normal commutes. On each leg of my commute, I have an MPG setpoint I hold it at and not let my speed drop below 50 mph while hill climbing on the interstate, for example... I try to climb at 75 mpg typically, in lean burn.

The choice I have is this - how much speed to I allow it to pick up descending the last hill? If I don't let it pick up enough, then I have to throttle up to stay at a descent speed while ascending, and that is no bueno.

75 mpg is probably too high of a setpoint in a HCH-2 for hill climbs, but you get the idea. My reasoning with the 75 is it's pretty easy to slide your foot down and peg it at 75, and it seems to climb well at that point without losing too much speed. Some hills I climb @ 100 mpg.

When I first got the car I was desperate to pull some 70 mpg segments... I figured, if the iFCD never goes below 75, neither can the average! :)

Also, my commute home was 78 mpg / 15.4 mi. I'm driving down to Alabama tonight to camp for the weekend, so I should have some numbers to post Sunday in the 300 mi+ range. I'm trying to get down before it gets dark, and will likely have to follow some lead foots on the way home, so I don't expect much impressive.

I'll just try to beat the Civic Diesel's cross country number at least. :D

Ben, thanks ever so much for this! I want to do my best, and it'll only happen with great folks like you helping.

Thanks again!

Okay folks, you be the judge .... Does this one count? It's from Home to #1 Son and Daughter-in-love's place ... :)


http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/68_7.JPG


'Cause if that counts, then this one from Wednesday night's trip ... home to Church ... surely does


http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/P1000121.JPG


And yes, if you're curious, I really do!! ... The Nike Swoosh is, of course, to honor my Nittant Lions!


http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/P1000120.JPG


'K ... enough foolishness for one night! Y'all have a great one, and know that you are indeed loved and prayed for!

Drove the Odyssey (18/25 epa) to Dallas and back ~300 miles. First trip with some flexibility to try techniques on it.

Bah. Overall 29.1 mpg. Best segment was 27 miles at 34.1 mpg. I tried throwing the book at it, and it laughed at the book. Nice and easy highway DWL (slower than traffic) gave the same numbers as full-on P&G and everything. I blame the auto and the V6.

FrJohn! 73.7 over 8.2 miles!? It looks like your BOSS is definitely smiling on you!;)

Andrew, 34.1 with a V6 auto? Nothing to sneeze at. Good work!:bananapowerslide:

Here are my numbers for today.
1. 78.1-6.3(home to take wife to work)
2. 87.6-6.3(wife's work to home)
3. 81.3-6.3(home to wife's work)
4. 97.9-6.3(wife's work to home)
Average for today was 85.6 and the tank is at 85.9 on the SG2 and 88.2 on the FCD.

Some great numbers from many different drivers, I'm impressed. Great work FrJohn. You're coming up fast.

Was having a decent day until I filled my car... Diesel was $1.172/L, which is about $4.49 USD per gallon. I was shocked, the last time I filled it was around $1.05. Anyway, here was my drive:

61.2mpg - 18 miles from home to gas station
51.2mpg - 118 miles to parents' house

Was a sunny 18F today. 10 mph headwind for the first 60 or so miles, then it died down.

fr john, i would say you got it! very nice job, and yes, it certainly counts!

i think i had 59.8 foe my drive home last night. it's been slowly warming up a little, which is a great relief for many reasons.......i am so ready to see some green grass.

I ended up with 82.5 mpg over 15.2 miles for the day. For the last 5.4 miles I had 100 mpg according to the SG2. The tank is at 84.8 on the SG(86.9 on the FCD) after 54.8 miles.

I'm back from the trip to Colorado...lot of stuff to catch up on since I was only back for 1 day from the Re-enactment II before I had to leave to CO. My son had TorqueNada and was bragging about a couple of good 30+ mpg runs in the last couple of days, but I suspect it could have been higher as the ScanGauge noted a max rpm of 5168 on previous day and 3248 for today... I'm pretty sure it was not for engine braking down a mountain ;)

Trip into work this morning showed 2 things... that I should have filled with gas 2 weeks ago as it was 3.19 before leaving for Re-enactment II and 3.35 when I left for Colorado, it is 3.459 this morning :eek: ... the second thing is that warmer temps help: 40.1 mpg for the trip to work.

Thank you everyone for your kind comments and condolences during this difficult week... we deeply appreciate it.

had to go back to my old house to pick up some stuff today. it was strange driving that route again, and, as usual, the idiots were out in force on a sunny saturday morning.

i was on a 2 lane backroad, DWL up and down some hills with 3 pickups behind me, though the first one was not right on my tail. soon as he could, the second one back passed two of us at once. then.....the one right behind me passes, and before he could even get back in front of me, he had his blinker on and turned left :mad::mad::mad:. yup, right in front of me, i almost think he was going to just turn left from the passing lane, except for the semi that was sitting on the roading he was turning onto. i was SO pissed.......i had to brake hard, and then wasted valuable battery juice on the horn..........

at least i haven't totally lost my touch. i got 60MPG there, and then, after i stopped and filled up, i got 73.8MPG for the trip back home. for a while i was running about 77-78MPG before i got to the hills.

and then wasted valuable battery juice on the horn..........

I never thought about it that way. See, I love my horn, I use it whenever necessary... maybe I should lay off it because it's load on the batter, thus alternator, and thus gasoline...? :rolleyes:

I drove back from Philly today - another 580 miles. 50 degrees and sunny when I started out, but the weather crappified as the day went on - first, it dropped to 35, then near the end it began pouring rain.

After about 100 miles I gassed up - 7.766 gallons, 345.6 miles, 44.617 MPG. For some reason, if there's terrain I am unable to hypermile on, it's low rolling hills - not steep enough to coast down, but certainly enough to destroy your numbers when you have to go up.

Then I went through the Allegheny Mountains, and across to Ohio, back to Cincinnati via C-bus (the last 150 miles was all flat, woo!). But then it began pouring rain. The gas light blinked at me for the last 20 minutes or so (I filled up at the Blue Mountain station in PA.) 8.992 gallons, 436.1 miles, 48.498 MPG.

I hated trying to hypermile that trip. See, if I didn't do at least 60, I wouldn't be able to get there in one day... :mad:

Took a trip to the new IKEA store today. WOW you would not know from that store that the ecomony was in bad shape. It was packed. You couldn't even get a place in the parking lot. They had shuttle busses and a line you had to wait in to get in the store.
95% interstate driving. 2 miles from my house the the freeway, then I-471 to I-75.

58.7 MPG 45.1 miles out
60.8 MPG 45.5 miles back

On the way back I was trying to stay in SHM and alternating between 46 and 51 MPH. I was ridge riding and sticking to it even with a very impatient person on my butt. At one point he actually passed me on the right in the maintenance lane. I was agasp. The funny thing was the speed limit was 55 and traffic was not going much faster than 55.

Go figure.

Just two short segments today of 5.2 miles each. Temps were 24F for segment 1 and 27F for segment 2. Winds were ~5 mph from the north.
1. 62.6-5.2(home to Church)
2. 68.3-5.2(Church to home)
Average for today was 65.3 and the tank is at 80.9 on the SG2 and 82.9 on the FCD after 65.3 miles.

went to a st. patrick's day party with some barn friends last night. i was happy to see that even driving through town, my coasting and 40MPH managed to keep my current tank at about 65MPG.

and, no, i didn't drive home full of green beer..... :)

Another new record... they just keep comin'
Had a shindig to attend down near Baltimore, about 2 1/2 hours away. In the tank? Just a hare over 1/3 left and I had already driven over 288 miles on it. A sane person would have filled up before they left, but that would lead to slightly less accurate FE numbers.
http://www.richmazz.com/Misc/Img_0793.jpg

So off I went... kicked off the right shoe and went at it (This is for you Fr John)
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The socks were strictly coincedence so I had to take a pic.

I had great conditions - about 53°, but my predicted tailwind was more of a sidewind. There were 2 beautiful 1+ mile FAS's on 222 in Lancaster, and a couple decent ones on 83 as well. As I exited in Elkridge MD I just got the gas light, and filled up. 424.1 miles on 9.205 gallons (after squeezing in 37 cents more to make it an even $30.00)

46.0727 MPG - the latest record!

Long time no post.

Think this was my week, but I'm not recording days. Also the numbers are not reported by SG, but rather FCD (subtracting finish from start). MoE is Margin of Error.

Started the week 331 miles into my February Tank
Dist|MPG|MoE
14.4|76.60|4.50
13.5|82.06|5.65
13.5|85.65|6.31
13.7|86.17|6.49
13.5|83.55|6.43
7.6|64.64|7.43
13.4|91.61|8.10
14.4|80.73|6.16
15.0|84.06|6.57
28.8|81.36|3.37
6.4|96.29|21.61
7.7|78.40|12.39
12.6|55.92|4.21
11.6|82.19|9.54
11.1|73.32|8.26

Since I'm on the bottom half of this tank, the MoE gets big, and just keeps getting bigger. Problem with math... never seems to do what it's told.

Edit: Forgot to mention. Temps from 70's to 80's.

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One trip today with 4 stops. I forgot to record the individual legs.

62.7 MPG / 84.5 miles. 75% freeway. Love that SHM.

9.6 Mi, 77.60 MPG, MoE 20 MG.

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Semi- 1017 miles, 155 gals= 6.56 mpg. $4.09/gal= $633.95 Bright side: earning lots of miles on my credit card.:rolleyes: Several 65 mph trips to make appointments of dubious importance.
Keith