Week of April 25 to May 1 (Nat'l Avg price $2.136)

Andrew, now sales tax on Emergency equipment, NICE!

Friday home:
- 58.9 / 12.9 miles (73F NNE@5)
FCD = 58.2 (+0.3)

Removed the grill block this weekend.
Weekly efforts = 131 miles / 2.45 gals = 53.5 MPG

Daughter helped mow the lawn this weekend. Son was last week. Daughter lasted longer than the Son. 1.5 years younger too. She is more helpful around the house wanting to do stuff.

This morning with school drop off:
- 55.6 / 13.1 miles (64F S@11) tail helped some.
FCD = 58.2 (=)

tank:
3.17 gals converted
171.4 miles
F<*****|*****E

 

Decided to fill-up early before driving 150 miles to Cleveland on Thursday.

212.5 Miles
6.163 gallons used
34.48 MPG


On this tank:
16.1 miles
414 miles remaining
34.2 Indicated MPG


Electricity wise (I know it's not fuel, but still being clean Last month we used 258 KwH for an average of 8.06 KwH per day. I've since brought the average down to around 6.8 KwH per day!

 

Alright, so two truck fill ups since last time. I won't bother getting too exact both because of the big numbers involved, as well as the fact that I have not yet found a consistent method to fill to an exact point. Oh, and pump error too.

992mi / 117gal = 8.48mpg
568mi / 80gal = 7.1mpg

The latter tank reflects yesterday, to a large extent, as I spent basically the entire day with a 20mph wind either perpendicular to me, or completely head-on. It's a bigger FE drain on these trucks than on a car, I have found out, and even a quartering tailwind won't do any good unless the wind is behind you enough.

Today was 8.2mpg on 534mi, not bad as I am hauling about 30k or so, 61k gross.

 

GFs town & country is in the shop. She took the volt to her place. Last time I drove there I did 57 miles on elec out of 65 miles.
Checked Onstar after she got there. She did 29 miles on elec.
She asked if I could see from my phone how fast she was going. I said no, but this song started playing when you hit the eway, and played her the Go Speed Racer theme song.

Found out that the volt is indeed electronically limited to 100 mph.

 

100? Not bad. I suppose that's all you'd really ever need out of something like that.

If I may be so bold, what is her TC in for? I bought one a month ago.

 

It's an 05. Free gas tank replacement from Chrysler. She got a letter saying gas tank warranty is extended for so many years and unlimited miles. Issue she was having was if you let it get done below 1/4 tank or so and then fill up, the float was sticking or something and would make the thing chug and stall.

 

Interesting. Mine's a '14 so no overlap. But good to know they're standing by it.

 

I wonder if that has to deal with the '08-14 shuddering when you're in reverse and going up a slope. The 2010 we had would do that every time you would bbe in reverse going up a hill.

 

I've been wintering in Tucson and I bought a tank of regular unleaded for $1.30! I haven't seen that price this century. Soon as I filled up the price dropped to $1.12, but quickly bounced back up to $1.80. Prices has been extremely volatile lately.

 

Didn't document things too well yesterday or today. Tank is around 550 miles , and 71 (66) MPG. Probably will fill up
Wednesday sometime.

 

last night:
- 62.0 / 12.9 miles (77F SSW@12)
FCD = 58.6 (+0.4)

last night after dinner the family walked down to Orange Leaf for froyo then back home (no dino juice used)

this morning with school drop off:
- 55.1 /13.1 miles (69F SSE@13)
FCD = 58.5 (-0.1)

Tank:
3.62 gals converted
197.2 miles
F_****|*****E

 

8.2 on 372 mi today.

I'll have to see if mine does that when I am home next.

 

Myrtle Beach today, regular $1.73, diesel, $1.89.

 

Wow, really surprised. 8.8mpg this morning fighting commute traffic in Chicago's far west suburbs. Despite all the signals and idling I did, the FE rose steadily once I was off of the superslab. This engine must really like those middle speeds 45-55mph.

 

Hey James , you were in my neighborhood ! I live in on the far east side of Aurora , very close to Naperville.

Today , cold-ish ( low 40's F ). Headwind from ENE. last pip started flashing about 7 miles from home. At that point , I have to travel about 58 miles to get to my local Shell to fill up. Last pip started flashing at 628.8 miles. Tank was at 654.7 miles , 70.8(65.84) MPG when I got to work , so hopefully I won't run dry. Will be filling up with their V-Power Nitro today. At $.70 per gallon more than the 87 E10 , it had better be good ! But I need to try it. I always use the same pump and the same ( first-click) technique , so I can compare this next tank to the previous 87 E10 tank.